On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 02.08.2011 15:38, schrieb Dave Reisner: >> We shouldn't make people install net-tools if the goal all along has >> been to move away from it. My vote is to split off the hostname binary >> from inetutils, which is just as full featured as hostname from >> net-tools. > > All this seems like complete overkill. Why don't we just make people > install inetutils? > > There are more tools from net-tools with no good replacement, like netstat.
I guess we could add inetutils to base, and remove whatever binaries it provides from net-tools. Do we know that this would not lead to any regressions? Cheers, Tom
