On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley <jer...@ardley.org> wrote: > > > > > On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > > This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be > > > that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a > > > command they rarely need was less convenient. > > > > The actual reason is they have deprecated it in favour of the ip command > > but left it available for now with a bit of searching. > > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years.
It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. As is the Gnu C compiler or Lua or... you name it. If you need it, you install it. It is in stable (version 1.60), coming in testing (v 2.10) and is in unstable. It is not going away, folks! > IIRC the wiki tells > you that but i honestly did not know that for years after.... Until i took > care of ubuntu servers: no root login period; no old network tools period. Where? Cheers -- t
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