On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2011-11-04 07:58:23 +0100] Ronald van Haren:
Are there other people want to switch the dependency to iproute2 instead by slightly changing the script?
I thought most of us agreed on that, as initscripts switched from net-tools to iproute2 back in June:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-June/020534.html
-- Gaetan
I think that there is a difference between in-house developed applications and others (patching upstream to use a tool you like more is different than changing the code if you are yourself upstream). IMO if you want to get rid of net-tools we should start pushing a bit harder and patch the other applications that depend on it as well. If you don't trust it because it is old, you should not trust it with packages in extra either (although all debian patches have been applied in the cvs version we use so it still is in some sort of maintenance mode). I just miss a clear policy here. Sure it has come up before but there has never been a real push in removing it completely (which may or may not be as easy as it sounds). But as I said, I don't have a strong opinion about using either ifconfig or ip in the script. I'll move the package from my staging dir by the end of the afternoon (now + 5 hours) if nobody speaks up against it. Ronald