On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:42:00 +0200 Bastian Bittorf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * David Seikel <[email protected]> [04.04.2013 11:25]: > > My copy of the ifconfig man page does not mention the ip command, and > > certainly does not say to switch. > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/net-tools > > (seems in debian this note on top is missing). debian is very > conservative. arch linux is the other way around. Because that note is not in the original man page; meaning that it was "deprecated" by a third party (though there is a note under "BUGS" at the end, saying "please use ip link" for showing full address information on Infiniband--but then, is anyone planning to use infiniband with toybox? And do we have to be bug-for-bug compatible?). See: http://net-tools.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=net-tools/net-tools;a=blob;f=man/en_US/ifconfig.8 Digging that up indicates that net-tools is very much alive, with at least 5 regular contributors within the past year or two and several 6 weeks ago. So this sounds more and more like plain, unadulterated, FUD. -- Isaac Dunham <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
