inetutils package conflicts?

inetutils package conflicts?

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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Why are there suddenly several package conflicts with inetutils-packages? 
Some of these packages seem very redundant. Is the inetutils meta-package 
supposed to completely replace several other packages, incuding but not 
limited to coreutils and iputils?

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Re: inetutils package conflicts?

[Juan RP]

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The inetutils pkg was splitted into smaller subpkgs and now this pkg 
depends on all its subpkgs, thus resulting
in a conflict if you had it installed previously.

You'll have to remove it and install one that does not conflict with your 
base.

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Re: inetutils package conflicts?

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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I understand that and I already resolved the conflicts that way. But what 
is the point of having a package like inetutils-hostname when that tool is 
already provided by coreutils? It is not really viable to remove the 
coreutils package. Or is it? Maybe the conflicting tools should exclusively 
be provided by the inetuitls-packages?

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Re: inetutils package conflicts?

[Juan RP]

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The point is that you could create a custom `base-system` pkg and use those 
inetutils pkgs rather than coreutils, net-tools, etc.

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