net-tools future

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hi Luk,
> 
> On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Note that we want to get rid of net-tools using packages. I'll look into
> > a patch that uses iproute instead if that's ok?
> 
> Noted & cool. (And what Michael said.)
> 
> Still atm fai is seriously buggy in that depends regard, so unless you have a 
> patch ready RSN, I would like to file a bug and/or add those depends to 
> net-tools now, so that this gets fixed and not forgotten.
> 

Seconded.

> That said, I dont see too much point in that work. You'll need to provide 
> those wrappers _anyway_. As Ted noted on -devel there are many many scripts 
> using them. 
> 
> So maybe rather invest your time now in writing that wrapper? ;-) Of course, 
> you could see fixing fai as an exercise on the way :-)
> 

Of course those wrappers must be written, but why use the wrappers if we can use
the real ones :-) I don't think it's too much of a hassle fixing FAI in this
regard, so I still think it is worthwhile.

Best,
Michael

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