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Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?



On Dec 29, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:

> As long as there is still a way to have working "netstat" and "ifconfig"
> commands, that is fine.
I do not think that anybody sane wants to remove the package from the 
archive: the idea is to stop using it in script in other packages since 
iproute is a) better and b) going to be installed anyway.

(Still, using ifconfig is a bad idea because it shows an incomplete 
view of the system.)

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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