Re: [gentoo-user] after last update hciconfig disappeared

[John Covici]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:45:08 -0400,
Raffaele Belardi wrote:
>
>
> John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  After the last update of net-wireless/bluez hciconfig has
> > disappeared.  Even downgrading did not bring it back, although it was
> > there in the previous release.  How do I do hciconfig, scan and
> > friends now, or is there a way to get them back.
> >
> > As a workaround I put an old one back just copying the binary, so I
> > could proceed, but there has got to be a better way.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth#Deprecated_method_using_hciconfig
>
> The ebuild lets you specify an extra-tools USE flag, maybe that one gets them back.

I tried  that and it failed --some file is missing and I got lots of
warnings about upstream not supporting, etc.

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