On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > It was recently brought to my attention (see below) that we still ship > net-tools in Arch. Should we perhaps start working on dropping that? I > regularly run into users who use it without knowing that it is dead > and broken. Moving it to the AUR would hopefully send the right > message... > > I know that this will probably upset people's muscle-memory as most > people probably have been using these tools for decades. I guess > that's not an insurmountable problem for us though? > > Cheers, > > Tom
Drop it. It may upset some users, but there's no point in supporting something that is clearly broken for many years and that has a superior alternative. Lukas
