Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

[Zac Medico]

On 04/24/2013 06:39 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 24/04/13 09:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:32:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
>> wrote:
>>> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in
>>>> OpenRC. I would probably call it virtual/network-manager
>>>> though.
>>>>
>>> You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind,
>>> you know, net-misc/networkmanager.  That's just too confusing
>>> imho.  I wouldn't object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything
>>> else that isn't confusing.  The net scripts are not a network
>>> manager, networkmanager, wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be
>>> things I would consider to be network managers.
>
>> But the oldnet scripts do run wpa_supplicant, dhcp clients, etc,
>> for each interface they manage.
>
>> Newnet doesn't even try that, it just manages static interfaces
>> and assumes that you will use a dhcp client or something like
>> wpa_supplicant in standalone mode to control your interfaces.
>
>
> virtual/network-init  ?

Sounds about right. Also, rather than "gentoo-oldnet", maybe a name like
"gentoo-network-init" makes sense, since I suspect that the vast
majority of users are still using it. If newnet is split out, maybe call
it "openrc-newnet-init" or something.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac