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| b1d3faa9 | 1 | The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All |
| ad64b1ae JG |
2 | deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for |
| 3 | backward compatibility only. | |
| 72a71454 | 4 | |
| 4c50b0b3 | 5 | What: line(1) command |
| 4c50b0b3 KZ |
6 | Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | -------------------------- | |
| 9 | ||
| 4ac02d4d | 10 | What: losetup -s |
| 4ac02d4d KZ |
11 | Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used |
| 12 | in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | -------------------------- | |
| 72a71454 | 15 | |
| 72a71454 | 16 | What: cryptoloop support in mount/losetup |
| 72a71454 KZ |
17 | Why: depreciated in favor of dm-crypt. |
| 18 | ||
| 6a5486fd KZ |
19 | --------------------------- |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | What: elvtune | |
| 6a5486fd KZ |
22 | Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9 |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | --------------------------- | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | What: arch(1) command | |
| 6a97809b | 27 | Why: deprecated in favor of uname(1) or arch(1) from coreutils |
| 6a5486fd | 28 | |
| 6a97809b | 29 | The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls |
| 6a5486fd KZ |
30 | where it will be maintained as an alias for uname(1) command. |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | ---------------------------- | |
| 33 | ||
| 6a5486fd | 34 | What: newgrp(1) |
| 6a5486fd KZ |
35 | Why: deprecated in favor of newgrp from shadow-utils |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | ---------------------------- | |
| 38 | ||
| 2da3626b | 39 | What: vipw/vigr(8) |
| 2da3626b KZ |
40 | Why: deprecated in favor of vipw/vigr(8) from shadow-utils |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | ---------------------------- | |
| 43 | ||
| 6a5486fd | 44 | What: last(1) |
| cceaba68 | 45 | Why: nobody uses this implementation |
| 6a5486fd | 46 |