On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:55:23PM -0500, Kylie McClain wrote: > net-tools, if you are not aware, is a set of long obsoleted tools, such as > `ifconfig`, `route`, `domainname`, `netstat`, etc. April 2011 was the ten year > anniversary of it's last release, and in Linux time, it's basically a miracle > that the crusty thing still even compiles. (which it doesn't, on musl!) > > Long ago it was superseded by iproute2, and was it was actually officially > unmaintained by the maintainers around 2009. [2] > > So, it's safe to say that it's well past it's prime. It should be removed from > the system set, and given that we don't have live CDs or anything of that > sort, > networking really doesn't matter for the system set, because we expect the > user > to install whatever they happen to need for getting connected; and they > probably > don't want to use `ifconfig`, if I had to guess. > > iputils on the other hand, is a set of network-related tools such `ping`, > `tracepath`, and various other small utilities. Asking why it was in the > system > set lead to me learning it's basically on there for historical reasons. It's > not > required for any system-critical functionality, and again, we depend on the > user > to deal with their networking setup.
So net-tools has been stable for 1½ decades. And iproute2 breaks every other week.. :) I'd say add net-tools to the stages set, leave iputils out and remove both from the system set. Regards, Bo Ørsted Andresen _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
