Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any problems there ;) Rgds, On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: >> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan >> > wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan > > wrote: > >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > package around when I have another package installed that does what > the firs

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire package around when I have another package installed that does what the first package is supposed to do? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Sorry for top posting) baselayout > 1.12 don't need net-tools, but other packages might need net-tools. Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? Rgds, On 2011-09-01, Doug Hunley wrote: > I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed > net-tools. At that point, I got

[gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-08-31 Thread Doug Hunley
I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed net-tools. At that point, I got errors about /bin/hostname being missing. I did a quick search and found http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443540-start-0.html where the dev says baselayout > 1.12 doesn't *need* the hostname comman