Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I've just upgraded GNOME to version 3.6 and realized that net-tools was > pulled in as a requirement for the new version of networkmanager. Now > I'm wondering what the current status of "net-tools" is, because > according to [1] it is deprecated and I was perfectly fine without it ;). > > I'm not familiar with the requirements for networkmanager, so basically > my question comes down to this: What is net-tools needed for and is > there a way to abandon this requirement? What are the plans for the future? > > Thanks in advance. Furthermore I would like to thank all of you making > GNOME 3.6 available for us. Probably a lot of work has gone into this, > so thanks again! > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/ It was pulled by dhclient which is what NM uses now instead of dhcpcd cause it has ipv6 support. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31289 (to which you are already subscribed to :) ) Greg
