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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?
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(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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