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.
+deprecated utils are in maintenance mode and we keep them in source tree for
+backward compatibility only.
+
+What: line(1) command
+Why: useless, nobody uses this command, head(1) is better
+
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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
The arch(1) has been added (during 2.13 development cycle) to coreutuls
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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
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
-