or is the "don't move from KDE 3" mentality coming up again? seems like anything new is drawing flak these days...
ip is hardly new - its been around since kernel 2.4.x, and its predecessor, net-tools, the package that contains ifconfig, hasn't been actively developed since 2001. Not sure if any of you have used Debian, but a long time ago (don't know just how long, but several years already), the nslookup utility started to sprout warnings about its being depricated and how one should use host instead. At the time this warning pissed me off because I had scripts that used nslookup, didn't want to change, etc (thought the extra warning would screw with my results coz I didn't know about stderr), but I rewrote my scripts. Wasn't hard, and yet this tool is still in Debian to this day (or, at least, when I last checked, not so long ago). I'm pretty sure ifconfig has been depricated since kernel 2.6.x - just the utility as bundled by SuSE didn't carry the warning. Yet. If ifconfig is only just starting to carry that warning, then there is still years of time left for people to stop using it, scripts to be updated, etc. If we keep maintaining old stuff, then pretty soon Linux will be like Windows: Having code that is 20+ years old because people simply don't want to change. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org