From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QzFJV-0002YG-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:00:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C1BA21C0FD; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 22:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193E421C16C for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so2257101wyg.40 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:59:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=15ltVhrYmFy+UvZNYwJEk8pDcKNtuRyxgBxfqzeb520=; b=vIEiSRWtHCIF2VNLIWQ21vlZ4NxFM+N+uRX/+b7rZiBk6mV0FaUsZJkbDwY0d4F7Ji yfHKKICwn0vy0tRfQ6W5yUQ0SlIMYUVB7+KWJi9qSFMqgyASUUajPNhLr/l4R3If43i+ nwoG0Oix8Prc1UJIoRqosqh1J966Lhkeu/99w= Received: by 10.227.179.14 with SMTP id bo14mr302747wbb.90.1314914380282; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fy13sm126361wbb.39.2011.09.01.14.59.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:59:32 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools? Message-ID: <20110901235932.7429000d@rohan> In-Reply-To: <4E5F93A5.4040909@binarywings.net> References: <4E5F93A5.4040909@binarywings.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d224dc188c8003d14183c80247a6be78 On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan > > 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