1 The following is a list of commands or features that are deprecated. All
2 deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for
3 backward compatibility only.
6 Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better
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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.
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16 What: cryptoloop support in mount/losetup
17 Why: depreciated in favor of dm-crypt.
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22 Why: useless for kernel >= 2.6.9
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27 Why: deprecated in favor of uname(1) or arch(1) from coreutils
29 The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls
30 where it will be maintained as an alias for uname(1) command.
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35 Why: deprecated in favor of newgrp from shadow-utils
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40 Why: deprecated in favor of vipw/vigr(8) from shadow-utils
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45 Why: nobody uses this implementation