Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/10/08 22:12 CST: > I will continue to use it and promote its use. Sorry.
I know that sounds crappy. Sorry for that. It simply came out bad and I really didn't proofread. > 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. Net-Tools is not dead. I've been using these tools for 20-something years, so it's hard to learn new stuff when the existing may still be the status-quo. See http://net-tools.berlios.de/ Though development stopped for a while, the effectiveness of the tool did not. Other folks also recognize this. I believe we need to encourage development of the existing tools, instead of developing new ones. Apparently I'm not the only one. Discussion is welcome. -- 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] 22:22:00 up 22 days, 13:10, 1 user, load average: 2.41, 1.66, 1.09 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
