[ominous_prime]

I agree wholeheartedly that the old tools should be hidden away, and I assume that they haven't been, because that will break more things than the actual renaming of devices. I bet even adding deprecation warnings could cause a ruckus, seeing how many times I've come across `ifconfig | something` both in scripts and people shelling out from other languages. I do wish the distros would just make a clean break, and let people fix their crappy code.

[kelnos]

Then you just make the deprecation warning go to stderr instead of stdout. '|' only redirects stdout.

[ominous_prime]

True - I'm just grasping as straws to come up with an excuse as to why this has gone on for so long.