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Doug and Brian, I'm going to reply in a little more detail. |
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On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 21:03 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:49:46AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: |
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> > >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:38 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > >> OK... so gentoo-networking? or just come up with own name? best-networking? |
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> > You and I have had this talk more times than I can remember at this |
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> > point. Using the name "oldnet" sucks and was one of the worst choices |
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> > possible. Looking through our IRC chats, I had also suggested |
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> > gentoo-networking. |
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I thought about gentoo-networking, but that sucks in a way too because |
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it implies that everyone on gentoo should be using it. |
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That's not quite right because we have at least five network stacks I |
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can think of off the top of my head, and OpenRc upstream supports |
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another. |
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- OpenRc upstream supports newnet, which I have played with, and I |
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believe people on Gentoo are using successfully. |
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- what we have been calling the oldnet stack, which most gentoo users |
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have been using. |
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- dhcpcd in standalone mode. |
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- wicd |
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- NetworkManager |
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- badvpn |
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> How about gen-net? It's nice, short and the name is more flexible if |
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> the pkg is picked up by other distros (something bantied about during |
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> previous discussions). |
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Hmm, that is a little too cryptic maybe... Is gen "Gentoo? General? |
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Generic?" |
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> > If we lose that flexibility and configurability then just give up on |
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> > OpenRC right now cause its dead because all interesting features are |
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> > gone and it'll just become an inferior init system that needs to be |
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> > replaced. |
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> ++ |
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As I have said before, none of this is an attempt to kill or deprecate |
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anything. It is just re-arranging things by moving the old gentoo |
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network stack into its own package. There are no plans to stop you from |
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using it if you want to use it. There is definitely nothing being said |
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here about the state of OpenRc in general. |
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William |
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