On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 15:27:19 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 8/27/20 3:17 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 14:34:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> Why is it bad if you have it installed but not running? > > > > > > FS#41834 as an example. Or FS#28819. There is just no good reason > > to keep dragging purely historic crap like inetutils on so many Arch > > systems just because a few common tools want `hostname`. > > That's just a bug in packaging. :p It's the same bug if you genuinely > want to have telnet installed due to being a fan of telnet, and install > it manually. Ok, FS#61041 then ;-) (still open) Anyway, the next sentence still stands; it's just deprecated. We made efforts deprecating ifconfig years ago[*], then why not rsh and friends? Geert [*] https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/ -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxx :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!
