Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network
On Sat, 13 May 2023 20:29:11 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. As is the
> Gnu C compiler or Lua or... you name it. If you need it, you install
> it. It is in stable (version 1.60), coming in testing (v 2.10) and is
> in unstable. It is not going away, folks!
We can quibble about the term "deprecated," but the official Debian
Reference Manual repeatedly calls it "obsolete":
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html
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Celejar
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