From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:25:19 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGXM_FCJn9wYUgYSH24FsfLZfXmmcgqg0aWdFs2o0L5dAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110901235932.7429000d@rohan>
Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any
problems there ;)
Rgds,
On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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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
2011-09-01 21:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-02 3:25 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
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