[arch-general] pacman -Rnus inetutils

Archange archange at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 25 03:12:24 UTC 2020


Le 25/10/2020 à 05:36, Chris Billington via arch-general a écrit :
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:58 AM Neven Sajko via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Today pacman surprised me after updating my system: turns out nothing
>> on my installation depended on inetutils any more, so I removed it,
>> even though it was there forever. The following reboot proceeded fine.
>>
>> I'm curious if somebody knows which packages dropped it as a dependency
>> lately.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Neven
>>
> Likely xorg-xinit:
>
> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/eea23f0e9c2244ee37656a953913181c7361dbb5#diff-3e341d2d9c67be01819b25b25d5e53ea3cdf3a38d28846cda85a195eb9b7203a

Yeah, more generally people (especially Eli) are trying to remove the
use of hostname, so that inetutils becomes uneeded more and more (unless
you actually require one of the other tools).


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