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

[Bogdan Ionuț]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 16:27, Ignacio Galmarino <igalmarino at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:01 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`.
> >
>
> wicd stop working if you uninstall net-tools. Just a warning to wicd users
> :)
>
> Ignacio
>

same for rp-pppoe users.