On 16 May 2017 at 18:29, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > It was pointed out on IRC to me tonight that there are actually a > reasonable number of packages that still depend on net-tools[0]. > > This has been deprecated for a long time now and we really should > strive to have everything use iproute2 instead so that there is no > longer a need to keep the deprecated package about, other than if > someone explicitly really wants netstat or ifconfig for some reason. > > Is the best way to handle this a mass bug filing? > > If we can at least start cutting down this list in the FC27 cycle I > think it would be a worthy effort. > > James > > > [0] package list: > sudo dnf repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires net-tools > gnome-nettool-0:3.8.1-9.fc26.x86_64 I think the name says it all there :) > redhat-lsb-supplemental-0:4.1-34.fc26.x86_64 That might be a hard and fast not going to happen unless the LSB is modernized not to require ifconfig etc. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
