| The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All | |
| deprecated utils are in maintenace mode and we keep them in source tree for | |
| backward compatibilty only. | |
| What: losetup -s | |
| When: 2.15 | |
| Why: the option -s is in collision with the Loop-AES losetup dialect that is used | |
| in some distributions. Use the long version (--show) only. | |
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| What: cryptoloop support in mount/losetup | |
| When: undefined yet | |
| Why: depreciated in favor of dm-crypt. | |
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| What: elvtune | |
| When: undefined yet | |
| Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9 | |
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| What: arch(1) command | |
| When: 2.14 | |
| Why: deprecated in favor of uname(1) or arch(1) from coreutils | |
| The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls | |
| where it will be maintained as an alias for uname(1) command. | |
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| What: kill(1) command | |
| Why: deprecated in favor of kill from procps or bash build-in kill command | |
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| What: newgrp(1) | |
| Why: deprecated in favor of newgrp from shadow-utils | |
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| What: vipw/vigr(8) | |
| Why: deprecated in favor of vipw/vigr(8) from shadow-utils | |
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| What: last(1) | |
| Why: nobody uses this implementation | |
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| What: shutdown(1) | |
| Why: nobody uses this implementation | |
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| What: rdev(8), ramsize(8), vidmode(8) and rootflags(8) | |
| Why: i386 specific and probably useless | |