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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:30:27
Message-Id: 20130804003014.GA27452@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet by Alon Bar-Lev
1 On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:49:46AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
2 > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:38 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Actually the plan is to generalize it so that it works with other init
4 > > systems. Right now it is very tightly integrated with OpenRc, but there
5 > > is interest in changing that, so adding openrc to the name would be
6 > > misleading eventually.
7 >
8 > OK... so gentoo-networking? or just come up with own name? best-networking?
9
10 I don't know about "best-networking". ;-) One reason we are splitting it
11 out also is so it can have its own development/release cycle; the
12 oldnet stuff is responsible for about 1/3 of the bugs against OpenRc
13 right now, and it is very difficult to test because of all of the
14 possibilities.
15
16 > However, I do not understand how you can port it without changing the
17 > notations... or lowering features... example: rc_net_*_provide,
18 > rc_net_*_need, or the rc_config, rc_use, rc_net_*_provide="!net"
19 > etc...
20 >
21 > Do you think systemd users can understand that /etc/conf.d/net is
22 > actually a shell script? I hope this is not going to be eliminated, as
23 > I use it a lot.
24
25 Robin is going to do most of it I think; I'm not exactly sure what he
26 has in mind.
27
28 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>