| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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