On Aug 08, Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> wrote: > historic, rather. ifconfig and route were around already when everyone > insisted on the separation of /bin and /sbin. /bin/ip is slightly newer > and supposed to replace ifconfig/route some day entirely. Just for the records, iproute entirely replaced ifconfig/route long ago. The only reason for keeping around the old programs is compatibility with other packages not yet updated and to not scare people who do not know better. (Does anybody want to try removing net-tools and see what breaks?) -- ciao, Marco
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