On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 12:22 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 08, Arno Töll <a...@debian.org> wrote: > > > historic, rather. ifconfig and route were around already when everyone > > insisted on the separation of /bin and /sbin. /bin/ip is slightly newer > > and supposed to replace ifconfig/route some day entirely. > Just for the records, iproute entirely replaced ifconfig/route long ago. > The only reason for keeping around the old programs is compatibility > with other packages not yet updated and to not scare people who do not > know better. > > (Does anybody want to try removing net-tools and see what breaks?)
I found unconditional use of ifconfig in:
/etc/init.d/bind9
/etc/qemu-ifup
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
(wireless-tools must die too, though)
Ben.
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