Am 11.01.2013 11:35, schrieb Xose Vazquez Perez: > On 01/11/2013 12:01 AM, William Brown wrote: > >> Nothing I didn't know about it. Will read into it now. >> >> Maybe this shows that a documentation component is needed, to "bridge" >> the gap to say X tool is replaced by Y >> >> IE netstat -> ss > > man netstat: > > NOTE > This program is obsolete. Replacement for netstat is ss. Replacement for netstat -r is ip route. Replacement for netstat -i > is ip -s link. Replacement for netstat -g is ip maddr. > > > net-tools is obsolete [1] since *fourteen* year ago. > And also some tools from iputils: arping ping ifenslave tftpd traceroute6 <sarcasm>oh yeah "ss" is a pretty clear and self explaining command</sarcasm> if people would develop SMART repalcements they would call the binaries identical with compatible command line switches so a "Obsoletes: whatever" would not change the USER INTERFACES fine, you can add addtionoal command line options, you can even add new specialized binaries in the same package but say "command A with other options" replaces "well known B" is pretty dumb at all
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