On 08/17/2012 04:03 PM, Matthew Patton wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:37:25 -0400, Manuel Wolfshant > <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > >>> If you want to see it added in, I am sure it can be - there is plenty of >>> disk space left still on the minimal iso. Go ahead and open a report for >>> this and tag it 6.4-QA >> As I have said before, there is no need for it: > ok, fair enough. But I've *NEVER* used the "ip add dev" command syntax. > And I would hazard pretty much nobody else has either. I did use it for several years. I learned about its vlan capabilities only a couple of months ago though. > There are a skillion shell scripts for KVM/QEMU, Xen, embedded firewalls, > etc. that use 'vconfig' because that's how it's been done for ages. I doubt that those people use the minimal.iso. I for one would use (actually I DO use ) a pxe server with kickstart files adjusted as needed. But that's just me. And if they do use the minimal.iso, I bet that they have to add another package or two in order to fulfil the purpose of the said server[s]. By itself a minimal install does not do much except routing. Adding another package when needed is not that hard, is it ? > Sure, > we'd like everybody to go back and rewrite their scripts but I don't see > that happening any time soon. > I see no reason to have people rewrite their scripts and I have no intent to enforce that on anyone. The only question I ask is "what did they do before the summer of 2011 when minimal.iso was launched " ? On a more personal note, so far only two persons (that I know of ) asked for vconfig to be put back. You over here and another person during a casual talk in #centos-social ( and that person was happy to learn that ip does that job and switched to using it )