Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ?

[Kevyn Shortell <trance@gentoo.org>]

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Well I for one would be completely SOL without it, my isp is sane and
doesn't use PPPoE thank god. They do however use DHCP. And in case your
wondering who my ISP is, it's Comcast Cable, which probably has more
users than SOHO DSL. It isn't as if they are a little ISP.

Also, every wireless gateway on the planet uses DHCP, same goes for
basic firewall boxes.

I don't see the need to tell all those users that they have to do
additional things in order to get thier box on the net during the
install process. Do you? It doesn't hurt anything to leave it.

my .02 cents...

Kevyn

On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 12:29, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> Marius Mauch wrote:
> 
> > what's the reason for dhcpcd being in the system profile
> [...]
> 
> I agree completely. I maintain several Gentoo workstations that use 
> PPPoE, static IPs, or ISC's DHCP server/client. On only a scant handfull 
> of workstations do I use dhcpcd.
> 
> I imagine with the popularity of SOHO ADSL, statically configured LANs 
> et al. dhcpcd is rather useless to a large percentage of our userbase.
> 
> Perhaps it could/should be relegated to the cron / syslog / kernel 
> section of the install guide - eg, another optional component after the 
> system is merged.
> 
> I, for one, have always advocated that the base system be just that - 
> enough to make the system useable upon first boot. Enough to allow root 
> to log in and merge functionality and nothing more.
> 
> Besides, then we can start a running tally; "Three years without an 
> exploit in our base install!" (Apologies to Theo)

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