Feature changed by: Olaf Kirch (okir) Feature #307200, revision 3 Title: Replace ifconfig by iproute2 - add warning messages to old tools openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2009-08-12 10:38:27 reject reason: Not for 11.2 anymore. Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Description: Because Novell once again cannot be convinced, I am putting https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492665 to public vote here. net-tools (/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, arp, etc.) has numerous problems, not to mention that it is not developed since April 2001 anymore. Since April 2004, iproute2 is available as a replacement for ifconfig, but users still use the old tools with the seemingly-crippled functionality. I propose printing a warning message upon invocation to try and educate users to finally use the modern tools. Discussion: #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2009-08-12 10:39:14) I suggest to do this once 11.2 is finished to see early what needs changes. #2: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2009-08-12 10:39:33) Olaf, any comments on this? + #3: Olaf Kirch (okir) (2009-08-30 20:03:54) (reply to #2) + I think this is not a good idea. Rather than breaking the tools even + more, and adding another out-of-tree patch, we should look at the net- + tools Debian package, which reportedly has a number of the problems + fixed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307200