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Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?



Hi,

On 29.12.2016 12:49, Marco d'Itri 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.

Yes, I'm totally in favour of that. Parsing the output of any of these
tools is wrong, and has been for far longer than iproute has even existed.

   Simon

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