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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:01:50
Message-Id: 51FECF44.3020907@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet by William Hubbs
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4 On 08/04/2013 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
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6 > I thought about gentoo-networking, but that sucks in a way too
7 > because it implies that everyone on gentoo should be using it.
8 >
9 > ...
10 >
11 >> How about gen-net? It's nice, short and the name is more
12 >> flexible if the pkg is picked up by other distros (something
13 >> bantied about during previous discussions).
14 >
15 > Hmm, that is a little too cryptic maybe... Is gen "Gentoo?
16 > General? Generic?"
17 >
18
19 Since it was pulled out of openrc, the name "netrc" also suggests itself.
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22 > As I have said before, none of this is an attempt to kill or
23 > deprecate anything. It is just re-arranging things by moving the
24 > old gentoo network stack into its own package. There are no plans
25 > to stop you from using it if you want to use it. There is
26 > definitely nothing being said here about the state of OpenRc in
27 > general.
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29 I admit when I first saw the name a few weeks ago I thought "oh shit
30 they're going to make me redo all of my network configs." Google
31 cleared it up, but still.
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[gentoo-dev] Re: renaming gentoo-oldnet Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] renaming gentoo-oldnet "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>