[arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
>> Am Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:01:15 -0000
>> schrieb "Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Tom Gundersen"
>> <announce at archlinux.org>:
>>
>>> Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>>
>>> This April marked the ten year anniversary of the last net-tools
>>> release. We decided to look at this as an opportunity to deprecate
>>> net-tools and provide alternative, and better maintained, solutions
>>> for net-tools functionality.
>>> ...
>>> We want to encourage the use of more
>>> advanced network solutions, such as `networkmanager` or our own
>>> `netcfg`.
>>
>> Well, I don't want to say anything, but netcfg still depends on
>> net-tools. ;-)
>
> One battle at a time ;-)

Patches welcome!

-t