On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:12:45 -0700 David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a convenience wrapper around commands packaged in iproute2. If > iproute2 adds this wrapper, it will have to carry it and maintain it > forever. Distributions (Fedora, RHEL, Debian, etc) may see it > differently and decide to add this patch onto iproute2 that they > distribute as a means for dropping bridge-utils. That's a reasonable > migration choice. It is just not something upstream iproute2 should carry. I see what you mean now, I didn't think of that. Sure, that also sounds reasonable. I still think this wrapper would require basically zero maintenance, and carrying it would outweigh the burden at large -- and we could also use it as a tool to get users familiar with ip-link and 'bridge' by printing the equivalent syntax before executing the commands. Anyway, I'll inform downstream maintainers about this option. -- Stefano
