From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5F93A5.4040909@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxYTP4QX_rLBT6zuvtpt5ECZ88MSfet8pLaB5FoXJzYdm=YnQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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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 [this message]
2011-09-01 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02 3:25 ` Pandu Poluan
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