From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlSdd-0006s9-3k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:06:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9QH5XX6030578; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:05:33 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9QH3S79028092 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:03:29 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.30] (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC62E190102 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:03:28 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1193326831.4245.16.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <20071025213113.GJ29642@supernova> <1193348959.2910.9.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20071025225641.GK29642@supernova> <1193380105.2913.1.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <4721BE92.4070200@thefreemanclan.net> <1193395366.4312.14.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:03:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1193418183.3487.3.camel@uberpc.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ab573971-e859-4d4a-9366-e5edd4d470da X-Archives-Hash: 8b6053fba4367b6ba2f990b554681e6e On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:36 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Well, several services already have a "basic" setup using named vars, > then something like Richard's suggested Options_eth0= as a (normally > commented) catch-all for anything advanced that the admin wishes to pass > "raw". IMO the standard network stuff is well defined enough for that, > perhaps with a couple of mode-toggles and/or counters thrown in. (A > counter like eth0_number_IPs= could default to one, for instance, but set > to something higher and with the appropriate number of address_N_eth0= > lines, it'd then cover your 5-address example, without having to worry > about figuring out how many there are, since it's a given.) > > I think that's what many of us would like and what this subthread is > asking for, truth be told, but I also realize it's going to be more work > setting it up -- but OTOH should be simpler for the user to setup so > perhaps less bugs to deal with and the documentation in the net sample > file should be somewhat simpler as well. The more work thing is why I've > not requested it before, but it'd be nice, and with others mentioning it > now too, now's the time to speak up if I'm going to. =8^) Fair enough, but one of the goals of baselayout-2 is to support baselayout-1 configs where possible if the shell is still bash. I'm striving to support similar configs for non bash shells so that there's not much of a learning curve. Yes we could have a totally new non compatible setup, but that would really suck hard for upgraders yes? Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list