Am 24.01.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
Yes, that was a joke. The correct line is:
bridge-utils -> iproute
(`man 8 bridge` for details)
Hey, even Linus said that iproute sucks bigtime (userinterface wise) and I have to agree with him. When ever the answer is "use iproute" or "use iw" for simple tasks, then I do not consider this a serious proposal. So dropping bridge-utils is IMO only feasible once there is a wrapper that implements the brctl interface using iproute. The same is true for ifconfig and friends.
What is wrong with buffer? For buffer, [...] (I use it).
May I inquire what you use it for? Tape drives are quite rare these days.
progress information during blockdevice-copies with dd for example :) dd if=/dev/mapper/foo bs=256k | buffer -z 256k | netcat desthost 1234 But I agree, mbuffer could be used for this, too, but with different options etc. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org