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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:06 -0500 |
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> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts |
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> > will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate package that |
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> > includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet. |
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> Aside all the other, please don't name it like this :). It's just feels |
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> wrong to start new and supposedly beneficial project and name it 'old' |
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> like something you just thrown away off the main tree. |
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The name is also per robbat2's request. I asked him about other names, |
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but he specifically wanted oldnet in the name. |
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A little bit of historical background may be in order here. |
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In a nutshell, it is called old because Roy wanted to deprecate the |
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whole thing eventually and switch us over to the newnet scripts that |
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OpenRC has. |
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name. |
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We thought about killing off newnet entirely for a while in OpenRC, but |
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I have since found that people do use it. It is more similar to what |
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happens on the *bsd side, and it works well for simple setups. |
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Also, I think it is more like what some other distros do for their |
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network interfaces. |
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The primary disadvantages of newnet are that services can't depend on a |
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single network interface, and it is not possible to stop/start a single |
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interface. |
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William |
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