On Sat, May 13, 2023, 5:23 AM Jeremy Ardley <jer...@ardley.org> wrote:

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> On 13/5/23 18:17, Nicolas George wrote:
> > This is your interpretation, not an official stance. It might as well be
> > that they considered polluting the completion namespace of users with a
> > command they rarely need was less convenient.
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> The actual reason is they have deprecated it in favour of the ip command
> but left it available for now with a bit of searching.
>

Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. IIRC the wiki tells
you that but i honestly did not know that for years after.... Until i took
care of ubuntu servers: no root login period; no old network tools period.

Jeremy
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