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gnu: wireless-tools: Describe it as deprecated. 

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (wireless-tools)[description]: Explain that it
  is deprecated in favor of 'iw'.
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Ludovic Courtès 2015-01-13 11:42:24 +01:00
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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
@ -1529,9 +1529,11 @@ mapper. Kernel components are part of Linux-libre.")
%standard-phases)
#:tests? #f))
(synopsis "Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions")
(description "Wireless Tools are used to manipulate the Linux Wireless
Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set
Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats.")
(description "Wireless Tools are used to manipulate the now-deprecated
Linux Wireless Extensions; consider using 'iw' instead. The Wireless
Extension was an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific
parameters and get the specific stats. It is deprecated in favor the nl80211
interface.")
(home-page "http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html")
(license gpl2+)))