Re: [eudev] Can 70-persistent-net.rules be optional?

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 16/12/12 04:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'm not a C programmer, but I do have a laptop I can use for beta 
> testing.
> 
> Regarding Richard Yao's statement about 70-persistent-net.rules; I 
> can see both sides of the issue, and some people are better off 
> with and some are better off without.

Yes, it will be optional.  Udev-171 had:

(A) persistent-net-generator.rules (and their helpers) installed only
via USE='rule-generator' (ie, --with-rule-generator), which is how I
plan to manage it in eudev as well; and

(B) there was a way in udev.conf to disable (or actually skip)
generation of persistent-net.rules -- this was handled in the init
scripts and so I am unsure if it will be put back, but if the
sys-fs/udev maintainers see no issues with this code being put back
into the init scripts then we will ensure that works as well.

Since the USE flag will be off by default I expect the majority of
users will end up with the functionality they seem to want, which is
that nothing will create the persistent-net.rules but they can do so
by hand.
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