On 16 May 2017 at 18:29, James Hogarth <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
It was pointed out on IRC to me tonight that there are actually a
reasonable number of packages that still depend on net-tools[0].
This has been deprecated for a long time now and we really should
strive to have everything use iproute2 instead so that there is no
longer a need to keep the deprecated package about, other than if
someone explicitly really wants netstat or ifconfig for some reason.
Is the best way to handle this a mass bug filing?
If we can at least start cutting down this list in the FC27 cycle I
think it would be a worthy effort.
James
[0] package list:
sudo dnf repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires net-tools
gnome-nettool-0:3.8.1-9.fc26.x86_64
I think the name says it all there :)
redhat-lsb-supplemental-0:4.1-34.fc26.x86_64
That might be a hard and fast not going to happen unless the LSB is
modernized not to require ifconfig etc.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.