[plug] Interface not being brought up on bootup

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:14:52PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <20031110065900.GC3569 at erdos.home>
| on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:59:00PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > If inetutils-tools is installed, /sbin/ifconfig will still be owned by
| > net-tools.  inetutils-tools installs a /usr/bin/ifconfig.
| 
| Riiight. If those are conflicting ifconfig's, wouldn't the situation
| normally be handled by the alternatives system, or by marking the
| packages as 'conflicting'?

They're installed in different places so there's no /need/ to need to
have a Conflicts: line - nothing actually breaks[1] as /sbin/ifconfig
will normally come first in root's path.  net-tools also contains a heck
of a lot more than just ifconfig.  (God only knows what possessed the
maintainer to make inetutils-ifconfig Provide: net-tools!)

Using the alternatives system would be bad because they're incompatible
from a command-line perspective.

Cameron.

[1] Except for ifupdown... :-)

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