From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Josefsson Subject: drop net-tools from %base-packages? Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:13:02 +0100 Message-ID: <877e2bm76p.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1imhYe-0007D7-5A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:13:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1imhYc-0004aC-Sl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:13:19 -0500 Received: from duva.sjd.se ([2001:9b1:84b6::187]:52430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1imhYc-0004UW-7M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:13:18 -0500 Received: from latte ([IPv6:2001:9b0:104:42:8073:49fc:7c65:cc2]) (authenticated bits=0) by duva.sjd.se (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-8) with ESMTPSA id 001HD8vA011128 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2020 17:13:09 GMT List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! While preparing a new release of GNU Inetutils, I read the following comment in ./gnu/system.scm net-tools ; XXX: remove when Inetutils suff= ices and looked into what possible tools Guix would want from inetutils that aren't available already. I'm not sure how to best find out what tools are actually used by Guix, but on my system the following tools appear to be installed: root@hamster ~# ls -la /run/current-system/profile/*bin/|grep net-tool|awk = '{ print $9 }' netstat route arp ipmaddr iptunnel mii-tool nameif plipconfig rarp slattach root@hamster ~#=20 Is anything else from net-tools used? Most of the tools are esoteric. I suspect the more well-known tools are 'route', 'netstat', 'arp' and 'rarp'. My Debian buster laptop has none of the tools above installed. In fact, the net-tools package is not even installed by default. It seems all uses have transitioned over to the modern 'iproute' suite. Thus, I suggest Guix drop net-tools from its required tools. People who are nostalgic about the tools can install them separately, just like on Debian. I wouldn't know how to comprehensible test the patch below, but I'm sure people will notice if there are problems if it is applied. :-) /Simon From=203ac6e4c9853a0cbc6fb42a2d263bb03bb9583c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Josefsson Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 18:05:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] system: Drop net-tools from %BASE-PACKAGES (replaced by iproute2). * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages): Remove net-tools. =2D-- gnu/system.scm | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm index abdbb081e6..fbc72ada3d 100644 =2D-- a/gnu/system.scm +++ b/gnu/system.scm @@ -574,7 +574,6 @@ of PROVENANCE-SERVICE-TYPE to its services." iw wireless-tools =20 iproute =2D net-tools ; XXX: remove when Inetutils s= uffices man-db info-reader ;the standalone Info reader (no P= erl) =20 =2D-=20 2.20.1 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQSjzJyHC50xCrrUzy9RcisI/kdFogUCXgzTHgAKCRBRcisI/kdF ohNYAQCzv5Ir56pE8Mwccs766sNCV4oNR53+Xj0ASgjuEVvhqQD/UXjTHWH6Bcr+ yl1FIuXuOu0ytwHHuy1sVD5XvQ+gNA0= =c45i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--