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On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:30:05PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
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> Any reasonable reader of this thread accepts that it should not be in
> the base distro, I'm certain. It would be an act of generosity to old
> fogeys to include it in the standard distro. (They're probably not running
> IPv6, if Gene and I are any guide.)
>
> But it took only a moment to apt-get the package, giving me ifconfig on
> debian 9.0, and nullifying all reason to seek any default inclusions.
Gosh. At last a reasonable standpoint, thanks. In the case of systemd I can
understand some excitement (I don't get all the bile on both sides, the
one patholigizing the other ("you're just change-averse" [1]), the other
criminalizing the one ("you're trying to kill Holy Unix").
But in this case, where ifconfig isn't going anywhere, well, apt-get
install it. It can coexist peacefully with ip (disclosure: I just have
both). And if you are keen on keeping it, just join the packager's
mailing list, lurk there for a while and see whether you can pick up
some task (buying the maintainer a pizza or a beer does count!).
> Gene, if ya can make your own nipples for black powder longarms, then a
> bit of DIY debian isn't a show stopper, I figure.
:-))
Cheers
[1] Or "It's 2017, ferchrissake!". As if history developed linearly
and always new > old.
- -- tomás
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