From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:43:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347388988.2027.31.camel@TesterTop4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504F7C61.1030508@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> >>> In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is
> >>> the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has
> >>> declared netplugd to be obsolete in favor of ifplugd.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC
> >>> support for one or both of these?
> >>
> >> The ifplugd author recommends you use NetworkManager for dynamic
> >> networking scenarios.
> >
> > NM seems bloated though unless you are using a desktop environment. It
> > wants to install 29 dependencies on my box.
>
> NM and connman are quite a bit overkill indeed.
If you're on a server, you probably want a static configuration anyway,
not something dynamic.
--
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 14:48 [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc William Hubbs
2012-09-10 20:05 ` David Leverton
2012-09-11 13:15 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-10 20:26 ` Olivier Crête
2012-09-10 21:05 ` William Hubbs
2012-09-11 18:01 ` Luca Barbato
2012-09-11 18:43 ` Olivier Crête [this message]
2012-09-11 21:01 ` William Hubbs
2012-09-11 22:23 ` Rich Freeman
2012-09-12 12:44 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-12 17:45 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-09-10 21:47 ` Christopher Head
2012-09-10 22:54 ` William Hubbs
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