[arch-general] net-tools: Deprecated?

[Greg Bouzakis]

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