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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 05:25:30
Message-Id: pan$71364$a68ea60f$62413fc1$9448c856@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet by Michael Orlitzky
1 Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:30:33 -0400 as excerpted:
2
3 > On 08/04/2013 06:20 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
4 >> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:15:35PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
5 >>> Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:01:40 -0400 as
6 >>> excerpted:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Since it was pulled out of openrc, the name "netrc" also suggests
9 >>>> itself.
10 >>>
11 >>> I like it, if it's not taken elsewhere and will thus cause problems.
12 >>
13 >> Maybe, but then when it is ported to other init systems (someone was
14 >> even talking about adding functionality so it would work under systemd)
15 >> a name that ties it to OpenRc doesn't make sense.
16 >>
17 > It's not tied to openrc, any more than e.g. openvpn is tied to badvpn.
18 > That's what they are, network rc scripts.
19
20 Exactly. That's why I like it. netrc is generic enough to be used
21 elsewhere, yet descriptive enough of what it actually does, that from my
22 perspective anyway, it's perfect. =:^)
23
24 --
25 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
26 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
27 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca>