wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

[Kevin Kofler]

Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Some of them are so trivial, that it looks like nobody is working
> on it:
> $ rpm -ql initscripts | xargs egrep "/route |/ifconfig " --color
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network:              /sbin/route add -$args
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:eval $(LC_ALL= LANG=
> /sbin/ifconfig | LC_ALL=C sed -n '
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:	LC_ALL=C /sbin/route -n \
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:                              
>         /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:                              
> /sbin/ifconfig $parent_device:$rdevip down
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:               /sbin/ifconfig
> $DEVICE netmask $NETMASK broadcast $BROADCAST;
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:               /sbin/ifconfig
> ${DEVICE} ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:	               
/sbin/ifconfig
> $parent_device:${DEVNUM} down

All these hits are in the legacy "network" service or the legacy "ifup" 
scripts which go with it.

Newsflash: the network service is DEPRECATED!!! That's what NetworkManager 
is for.

> net-tools is obsolete since '99 (Red Hat Linux 6.0 - Linux-2.2),
> *12 years* ago!

And the network service is obsolete since at least Fedora 10, when Anaconda 
started defaulting to NetworkManager. (The live images already did default 
to NM at that point.)

> It's a *shame* that all leading distributions, still rely on the
> old *BSD way to do networking.

They don't. They use NetworkManager by default, which doesn't use any of the 
scripts you mentioned there.

        Kevin Kofler