Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (net-tools)[arguments]: In
>> REMOVE-REDUNDANT-COMMANDS-PHASE, add regexp for ifconfig.
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/linux.scm | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
>> index dffe2c49c..8c07d1fdd 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
>> @@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ inadequately in modern network environments, and both should be deprecated.")
>>                 ;; Remove commands and man pages redundant with Inetutils.
>>                 (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
>>                        (dup (append-map (cut find-files out <>)
>> -                                       '("^hostname"
>> +                                       '("^hostname" "^ifconfig"
>
> GNU ifconfig is somewhat incompatible and may have a different feature
> set compared to the one of net-tools, so I’d be in favor of keeping it.
>
> WDYT?

The motivation for this commit was to remove a conflict in
%base-packages.  Currently it's entirely random which ifconfig ends up
in the system profile, which is not great.

What about the below hack?  Alternatively, it could be moved to a
separate output.  Thoughts?