Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet

[Brian Dolbec]

On Sun, 2013-08-04 at 15:37 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> Doug and Brian, I'm going to reply in a little more detail.
>
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 21:03 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:49:46AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:38 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > >> OK... so gentoo-networking? or just come up with own name? best-networking?
> > > >
> >
> > How about gen-net?  It's nice, short and the name is more flexible if
> > the pkg is picked up by other distros (something bantied about during
> > previous discussions).
>
> Hmm, that is a little too cryptic maybe... Is gen "Gentoo? General?
> Generic?"


OK. that was the point like mgorny said.  To keep Gentoo out of the name
so it is more likely to be picked up by other distros due to it's ease
of use and flexibility.

Since it is so flexible and handle so many configurations...

How about Multi-net?  ;) (just one more for the fray...)

And yes, as dilfridge said, William, Robin, PLEASE end the bikeshed and
pick a decent name.  Almost anything is better than having "old" in it.


>
> > > If we lose that flexibility and configurability then just give up on
> > > OpenRC right now cause its dead because all interesting features are
> > > gone and it'll just become an inferior init system that needs to be
> > > replaced.
> > >
> >
> > ++
>
> As I have said before, none of this is an attempt to kill or deprecate
> anything. It is just re-arranging things by moving the old gentoo
> network stack into its own package. There are no plans to stop you from
> using it if you want to use it. There is definitely nothing being said
> here about the state of OpenRc in general.
>
> William


hmm, re-reading that, I was off the way I ++'d it.  I know there are no
plans to drop support for it.  What I was plus-ing was more the fact
that with the oldnet naming, it is more and more likely for users to
migrate away from it.  After all, it's the old way as it's name
suggests.  With that happening, there will be less and less need for
openrc.  And openrc dieing a slow death.

P.S. no need to expand further on this.  It was just a clarification

Long Live OpenRC!!! :D
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>