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