net-tools future

[Luk Claes]

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>> 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.

Right, seems to be the best option as there are already some glitches.

>> 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. 

The wrappers are only meant to be included for user scripts for one more
release.

>> 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.

The wrappers will apparently either depend on packages like ipcalc and
similar or will get quite complex.

Cheers

Luk