On 18 May 2017 at 14:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's fine Nico, and I'll remind you I'm not in any way proposing
> removal of net-tools from the repositories.
Cool. "Deprecated" can often imply that the toolkit is due to be
removed, so I personally just wanted to point out some specific,
hidden dependencies that may not be apparent from a casual RPM
analysis.
No worries, and this is a concern for sure. Hopefully if we work on it
in rawhide there will be sufficient awareness if someone does depend
on a net-tools utility that they manually mark that package to be
installed.
> Also looking at older systems isn't relevant as this is just
about
> looking forward with Fedora.
>
> Again do keep in mind that the default RHEL7 server install, a minimal
> Fedora install and the upcoming Debian Stretch has no net-tools by
> default.
I see your point. I'm not saying pulling out net-tools dependencies is
unreasonable: I'm suggesting that there may be an unexpected
consequence in components with unannounced dependencies, such as the
python "uuid" module.
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If we find things like that I think it safe to be considered a bug, as
the dependency should be declared as a requirement :)