On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 15:08, Guido Berhoerster
* Ludwig Nussel
[2015-06-09 14:16]: Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2015-06-09 11:31, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
The net-tools package in Factory is completely outdated. We have version 1.60 from 2001(!)
[...] Anyone considering it: Be aware that there return for that is already diminishingly low, and that his/her time is probably better invested in removing Requires: net-tools from the few remaining packages.
openSUSE's boot does not depend on net-tools, neither does Fedora's. Fedora's dhcp-server does not depend on it either (while openSUSE's still does). The ship has sunk long ago… the remains only float because of buoyancy.
You are right, it's mostly useful for the hostname tool. Still I guess we want and have to keep that one.
How about switching to the seperate hostname implementation at https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hostname.html which everyone else (at least Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL) uses? Would that be enough to get rid of net-tools altogether?
Uhmm, what is the functional equivialient of "netstat", and what will replace "traceroute" / "traceroute6" (tracepath, maybe?) ? Yes, we already had the discussion of the eqiv. of "ifconfig" and "route", but I'm unclear on the other two. Thanks, - Yamaban.