DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/10/08 22:00 CST: > I left that part out intentionally. ifconfig is the only utility used > from net-tools, and that is only used to setup the interfaces. Force > the patch and it reduces a dependency as iproute2 should be installed in > LFS anyway. If not, then the optional dependency really should be put > back into the book. Doesn't matter much to me, but installing all of > net-tools to provide one tool that will be used twice (ok 12 times if > you count the loop) is a bit overkill.
You have a point, but I loathe IP-Route. You wouldn't believe the amount of folks I encounter that don't understand why a perfectly good tool such as ifconfig was replaced. I will continue to use it and promote its use. Sorry. Now that said, I do need to accommodate LFS and its use of IP-Route. I thought I put an incidental mention that you could eliminate the patch if you have Net-Tools installed. I install Net-Tools in LFS still to this day and really see no need to change. I didn't think the mention was overkill. If someone wants ifconfig, they won't mind installing the Net-Tools package. Tell me how we can phrase it so that folks will know that you can still use ifconfig. I'm wide open to suggestions. I don't want to eliminate the mention of ifconfig altogether though. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 22:05:00 up 22 days, 12:53, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 0.73, 0.42 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
