On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:01:15 -0000 > schrieb "Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Tom Gundersen" > <announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >> This April marked the ten year anniversary of the last net-tools >> release. We decided to look at this as an opportunity to deprecate >> net-tools and provide alternative, and better maintained, solutions >> for net-tools functionality. >> ... >> We want to encourage the use of more >> advanced network solutions, such as `networkmanager` or our own >> `netcfg`. > > Well, I don't want to say anything, but netcfg still depends on > net-tools. ;-) One battle at a time ;-) -t