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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:30:16
Message-Id: 51786B9C.9070607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC by William Hubbs
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4 On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
6 >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
7 >>
8 >>> Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't
9 >>> need to rehash here), it seems a bit silly to not ship networking
10 >>> support by default. I'd rather not do it as part of the system set,
11 >>> though that would be consistent with what we're doing with ssh, and it
12 >>> is still override-able.
13 >> To handle the various possible cases, maybe we need a "virtual/net" as
14 >> part of the system set, which can be satisfied by either oldnet or
15 >> newnet or whatever. The install ISO will have a basic working network
16 >> stack (IPV4+IPV6). After the initial install, the admin can do
17 >> whatever. Maybe even invoke package.provided.
18 >
19 > This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in OpenRC.
20 > I would probably call it virtual/network-manager though.
21 >
22 You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind, you know,
23 net-misc/networkmanager. That's just too confusing imho. I wouldn't
24 object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything else that isn't
25 confusing. The net scripts are not a network manager, networkmanager,
26 wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be things I would consider to be network
27 managers.
28
29 - -Zero
30
31 > Are there any issues with putting together a virtual like this and
32 > adding it to @system?
33 >
34 > Thanks,
35 >
36 > William
37 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC Carlos Silva <r3pek@×××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>