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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc: use iproute2 for all network handling in linux
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:12:31
Message-Id: 20111111221123.GA32082@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc: use iproute2 for all network handling in linux by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:01:43PM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > William Hubbs schrieb:
3 > > I realize there would be a trade-off if I stop supporting linux's
4 > > ifconfig and route in openrc, but how much of a trade-off? Would the
5 > > benefits of iproute2 outweigh the down side of not supporting ifconfig
6 > > and route on linux?
7 > >
8 > > What does everyone think?
9 >
10 > +1
11 > Do you need iproute2 at all? I think you could fall back to busybox if
12 > iproute2 is not installed.
13
14 I haven't looked at busybox that much yet, but I know that ip is part
15 of it, so that may be a possibility.
16
17 > While you are at it, please also switch from wireless-tools to iw :)
18 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261655
19
20 Yeah I know about that bug. :-) I want to get 0.9.5 out the door and
21 make that a stable candidate, then after that, I will look into both of
22 these.
23
24 William