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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:32:35 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGU-CGrKtHLkCqk5jPwjURpFUDKb4DJWQNgb45H88q-rbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxYTP5-S1hqnYf_08ErcOQeg1rdW8TjJXwM-CdmOHr5HO-xcQ@mail.gmail.com>

(Sorry for top posting)

baselayout > 1.12 don't need net-tools, but other packages might need net-tools.

Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway?

Rgds,


On 2011-09-01, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed
> net-tools. At that point, I got errors about /bin/hostname being
> missing. I did a quick search and found
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443540-start-0.html where the dev
> says baselayout > 1.12 doesn't *need* the hostname command. I'm
> running ~amd w/ openrc and baselayout-2,0,3, yet my system complains.
> Anyone know how to kill net-tools completely? Thanks!
>
>


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Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-01  2:33 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 [this message]
2011-09-01 13:47   ` Doug Hunley
2011-09-01 14:16     ` Florian Philipp
2011-09-01 21:59       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02  3:25         ` Pandu Poluan

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