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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:39:33
Message-Id: 5178894A.9060506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC by William Hubbs
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4 On 24/04/13 09:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:32:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
6 > wrote:
7 >> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>> This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in
10 >>> OpenRC. I would probably call it virtual/network-manager
11 >>> though.
12 >>>
13 >> You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind,
14 >> you know, net-misc/networkmanager. That's just too confusing
15 >> imho. I wouldn't object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything
16 >> else that isn't confusing. The net scripts are not a network
17 >> manager, networkmanager, wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be
18 >> things I would consider to be network managers.
19 >
20 > But the oldnet scripts do run wpa_supplicant, dhcp clients, etc,
21 > for each interface they manage.
22 >
23 > Newnet doesn't even try that, it just manages static interfaces
24 > and assumes that you will use a dhcp client or something like
25 > wpa_supplicant in standalone mode to control your interfaces.
26 >
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28 virtual/network-init ?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>