Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
>
> > Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't
> > need to rehash here), it seems a bit silly to not ship networking
> > support by default.  I'd rather not do it as part of the system set,
> > though that would be consistent with what we're doing with ssh, and it
> > is still override-able.
>   To handle the various possible cases, maybe we need a "virtual/net" as
> part of the system set, which can be satisfied by either oldnet or
> newnet or whatever.  The install ISO will have a basic working network
> stack (IPV4+IPV6).  After the initial install, the admin can do
> whatever.  Maybe even invoke package.provided.

This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in OpenRC.
I would probably call it virtual/network-manager though.

Are there any issues with putting together  a virtual like this and
adding it to @system?

Thanks,

William