FS#64030 - [base] Remove network tooling
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Opened by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 06 October 2019, 10:30 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:13 GMT
Opened by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 06 October 2019, 10:30 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:13 GMT
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Network tooling are not mandatory. pm/vm/containers without
networks don't need them.
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Closed by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:13 GMT
Reason for closing: Moved
Additional comments about closing: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/base/issues/3
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:13 GMT
Reason for closing: Moved
Additional comments about closing: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/base/issues/3
OTOH it's not like we have netctl there...
Thoughts? I wish this had seen more discussion months ago, though. :(
I don’t use ping for one (when I need to debug network connectivity issue, I rather use mtr). ip for sure, but I that’s because I need network.
ip and ping are network tooling useless on systems without network (or where the network is defined outside).
Moreover, they are neither POSIX[1] nor LSB5[2] commands.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands
[2] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Common/LSB-Common/rcommands.html#TBL-CORECMD