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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:57 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> I suppose one question I need to ask is the oldnet vs newnet question. |
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> The git repository defaults to building and installing the newnet |
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> option, and we make oldnet the default in the ebuild. |
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> People migrating from stable will know the oldnet option, and this is |
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> the only way to configure the network scripts that is actually covered |
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> in our documentation. |
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> Do we want to switch the upstream repository to make oldnet the default? |
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> What about newnet. Should we keep it at all? If we do, should we put |
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> it behind a use flag which would be off by default? |
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Is there any advantage to using newnet over oldnet? If there aren't |
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any advantages, we should not attempt to support it (even as an |
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optional feature). Old-net by default, no use-flag for newnet; people |
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can use EXTRA_ECONF if they *really* want to use it. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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