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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc: use iproute2 for all network handling in linux
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:02:37
Message-Id: 4EBD9B47.6030008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc: use iproute2 for all network handling in linux by William Hubbs
1 William Hubbs schrieb:
2 > I realize there would be a trade-off if I stop supporting linux's
3 > ifconfig and route in openrc, but how much of a trade-off? Would the
4 > benefits of iproute2 outweigh the down side of not supporting ifconfig
5 > and route on linux?
6 >
7 > What does everyone think?
8
9 +1
10 Do you need iproute2 at all? I think you could fall back to busybox if
11 iproute2 is not installed.
12
13 While you are at it, please also switch from wireless-tools to iw :)
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261655
15
16
17 Best regards,
18 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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