On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:25:13PM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Steve Langasek > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all,
> > Starting last month, Debian has been discussing dropping net-tools[1], which > > prompted me to review its status in Ubuntu. This package, which provides > > various commands like ifconfig and netstat, is currently part of > > ubuntu-minimal. However, the tools in this package are largely considered > > superseded by iproute2, providing 'ip' and 'ss' tools that interface much > > better with modern kernels. And iproute2 is also part of ubuntu-minimal. > > Is there a reason to keep net-tools in ubuntu-minimal, or should we remove > > it from the minimal set for 17.04? Packages / flavors that want it can > > still depend on it (which they should technically already be doing anyway). > I'm +1 on dropping net-tools from ubuntu-minimal, as long as we keep > it in the ubuntu-server seed. There are lots of user scripts and > tools that awk and grep their way around ifconfig output, that we > should be careful not to break, in the default Ubuntu experience. > But, I agree that the minimal Ubuntu image can certainly get by with > just /sbin/ip. Thanks. Since there's been no other feedback, I've gone ahead with moving this out of the minimal seed and into the server seed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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