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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Now that Gentoo apparently offers a wide selection of network |
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> managers, perhaps it makes sense to have the user pick which |
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> one they want to use. |
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Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: |
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> Choice is fine, I love choice, but to have a user unpack a stage tarball |
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> and find no way at all to handle their networking.... that's just ugly. |
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The system where you unpack the stage likely already handles networking. |
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> I would say it is rare enough to not need net that removing all |
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> networking options from stage3 is near suicidal. |
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I disagree. Not everything is connected. I also like that there's no |
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syslog and no cron in stage3. |
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> I can do all kinds of amazing things on a system without an MTA. |
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> But if I have no net I can't even install net.... |
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If you need net then make sure to install the manager you prefer |
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during installation. |
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I think that makes a lot of sense. |
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//Peter |