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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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> > Actually the plan is to generalize it so that it works with other init |
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> > systems. Right now it is very tightly integrated with OpenRc, but there |
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> > is interest in changing that, so adding openrc to the name would be |
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> > misleading eventually. |
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> OK... so gentoo-networking? or just come up with own name? best-networking? |
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I don't know about "best-networking". ;-) One reason we are splitting it |
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out also is so it can have its own development/release cycle; the |
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oldnet stuff is responsible for about 1/3 of the bugs against OpenRc |
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right now, and it is very difficult to test because of all of the |
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possibilities. |
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> However, I do not understand how you can port it without changing the |
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> notations... or lowering features... example: rc_net_*_provide, |
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> rc_net_*_need, or the rc_config, rc_use, rc_net_*_provide="!net" |
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> etc... |
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> Do you think systemd users can understand that /etc/conf.d/net is |
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> actually a shell script? I hope this is not going to be eliminated, as |
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> I use it a lot. |
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Robin is going to do most of it I think; I'm not exactly sure what he |
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has in mind. |
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William |