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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> what's the reason for dhcpcd being in the system profile |
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I agree completely. I maintain several Gentoo workstations that use |
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PPPoE, static IPs, or ISC's DHCP server/client. On only a scant handfull |
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of workstations do I use dhcpcd. |
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I imagine with the popularity of SOHO ADSL, statically configured LANs |
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et al. dhcpcd is rather useless to a large percentage of our userbase. |
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Perhaps it could/should be relegated to the cron / syslog / kernel |
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section of the install guide - eg, another optional component after the |
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system is merged. |
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I, for one, have always advocated that the base system be just that - |
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enough to make the system useable upon first boot. Enough to allow root |
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to log in and merge functionality and nothing more. |
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Besides, then we can start a running tally; "Three years without an |
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exploit in our base install!" (Apologies to Theo) |
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Stewart Honsberger |
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http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ |
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"Capitalists, by nature, organize to protect themselves. |
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-- Geeks, by nature, resist organizaion." |
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