On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote:
> This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be
> that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a
> command they rarely need was less convenient.
The actual reason is they have deprecated it in favour of the ip command but left it available for now with a bit of searching.
Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. IIRC the wiki tells you that but i honestly did not know that for years after.... Until i took care of ubuntu servers: no root login period; no old network tools period.