From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:59:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110901235932.7429000d@rohan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5F93A5.4040909@binarywings.net>
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200
Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley:
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
> > wrote:
> >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway?
> >
> > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire
> > package around when I have another package installed that does what
> > the first package is supposed to do? ;)
> >
>
>
> `emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/net-tools` is more reliable than
> equery for finding dependencies. It will tell you that net-tools is
> part of @system. It is generally discouraged for ebuild-developers to
> add dependencies to stuff that belongs to @system. Therefore equery
> does not help you find all dependencies.
>
> If you are so eager to remove net-tools, you can try to replace all
> binaries with symlinks to /bin/busybox. It should contain minimal
> implementations for most binaries like hostname. Note that this can
> seriously break your system if the busybox implementation is
> insufficient.
*Especially* don't use BusyBox tar.
Been there, done that.
--
Alan McKinnnon
Systems Engineer^W Technician
Internet Solutions
011 575 7585
alan.mckinnon@is.co.za
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-01 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 0:46 [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools? Doug Hunley
2011-09-01 2:32 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-01 13:47 ` Doug Hunley
2011-09-01 14:16 ` Florian Philipp
2011-09-01 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-09-02 3:25 ` Pandu Poluan
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