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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:33:30
Message-Id: 442E2C3E.2020800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 >It is debatable whether users whose systems are already working properly
4 >should be expected to read sections of the Handbook
5 >merely in order to accommodate a newly-introduced form of configuration
6 >or whether some brief note in the emerge output or in GWN
7 >would be a better way of alerting them to such changes,
8 >but we all have other things to do today & I won't take it further.
9 >
10 >
11 >
12 Well, I could bail out in pkg_setup if /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe script still
13 exist. However, these kind of discussions shouldn't be here, but in bugzie.
14 Btw, the change was made 9+ months ago:
15 ...
16 21 Jun 2005; Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o> -files/rp-pppoe.rc,
17 rp-pppoe-3.5-r11.ebuild:
18 Remove the rp-pppoe init script. The new way of using rp-pppoe is through
19 adsl net module of the baselayout-1.11.12-r4.
20 ...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o>