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Bug#697890: marked as done (installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin)



Quoting Ben Hutchings (ben@decadent.org.uk):

> By the same token, we don't need iproute2 if there is no GUI tool that
> invokes it.  See how silly that argument is?

The point is not saying that iw is useless. My point is that I don't
think that solving this problem (if there is one) should be done by
adding iw to a *desktop* task.

> iw is the standard Linux command for configuring wireless interfaces.
> But you are quite unlikely to have them on a server, otherwise I would
> suggest it should be priority standard.
> 
> crda is definitely required for wireless interfaces, but it is normally
> invoked via a udev hook rather than from a shell or GUI front-end.


Unless some other solution exists, isn't it better to use the *laptop*
task for these?


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