From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 22:45:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3cgofqa.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601045313.hzbhirssd52sd2pn@venom> ("Tomáš Čech"'s message of "Wed, 1 Jun 2016 06:53:13 +0200")
Tomáš Čech (2016-06-01 07:53 +0300) wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:10:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>Matthew Jordan <matthewjordandevops@yandex.com> skribis:
>>
>>> mentions using ifconfig, correct me if I"m wrong but isn't ifconfig
>>> considered deprecated?
>>
>>This ifconfig (part of GNU Inetutils) is maintained, so I think it’s
>>fine. :-)
>
> Yes, ifconfig is considered deprecated for more than decade. I'm not
> networking guy but colleague of mine who is told me that ifconfig is
> just ugly wrapper not reflecting how the kernel is handling it.
> http://serverfault.com/questions/633087/where-is-the-statement-of-deprecation-of-ifconfig-on-linux
>
> iproute2 is way to go.
I would also prefer to see "ip" command instead of "ifconfig" in the
manual. Alternatively both can be mentioned..
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-01 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-30 0:45 feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5) Ethan Stefan Day
2016-05-31 15:58 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-31 16:31 ` Matthew Jordan
2016-05-31 17:56 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-31 18:35 ` Matthew Jordan
2016-05-31 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-01 4:53 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-06-01 19:45 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-06-02 8:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-02 8:37 ` Alex Kost
2016-06-03 8:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-04 12:52 ` Alex Kost
2016-06-01 19:22 ` Matthew Jordan
2016-06-03 8:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-31 21:13 ` Ethan Stefan Day
2016-06-04 21:00 ` Rescuing the GNU Storage Guide? Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-04 23:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-31 16:19 ` feedback as solicited by Guix manual (Section 7.1.5) Ludovic Courtès
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