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