From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11117 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Aug 2003 19:20:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 23143 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2003 19:20:31 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:20:37 +0200 From: Wolfram Schlich To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030823192037.ALLYOURBASEAREBELONGTOUS.A11963@bla.fasel.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030823210429.57e7e85c.genone@genone.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030823210429.57e7e85c.genone@genone.de> Organization: Axis of Weasel(s) X-Accept-Language: de, en, fr X-GPG-Key: 0xCD4DF205 (http://wolfram.schlich.org/wschlich.asc, x-hkp://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 39EC 98CA 4130 E59A 1041 AD06 D3A1 C51D CD4D F205 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Aug 23 2003 15:08:51) X-Face: |P()Q^fx-{=,K-3g?5@Id4o|o{Xf_5v:z3WIhR3fOW-$,*=[#[Qq<,@P!OsXbR|i6n=]B<3mzGC++F@K#wvoLEnIZuTR6wPCMQfxq!';9w[TiP3Bhz"r&$7eGFq7us@Z5Qd$3W[3W3:U7biTNZgf"<]LqwS X-Operating-System: Linux prometheus.bla.fasel.org 2.4.22-pre6-ac1 #1 SMP Son Jul 20 23:55:25 CEST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux X-Uptime: 21:14:40 up 6 days, 37 min, 12 users, load average: 1.21, 1.01, 0.73 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.14; AVE: 6.21.0.1; VDF: 6.21.0.26; host: mx.bla.fasel.org) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.11; AVE: 6.21.0.1; VDF: 6.21.0.26; host: mail.bla.fasel.org) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ? X-Archives-Salt: 33665438-ea9a-4fcd-adff-7f08ece1d271 X-Archives-Hash: 07c7ae9b5a105904220518bf930687e9 * Marius Mauch [2003-08-23 21:09]: > Hi, > > what's the reason for dhcpcd being in the system profile > (default-x86-1.4 at least, haven't checked the others)? If it's only > because it might be used in /etc/conf.d/net I think it should be > removed, as there are IMO many users who don't need/want dhcpcd on their > systems. I know there are a lot of people using dhcp for their network > config, but why should that impose it on people not using it (e.g. I > only need it on one of my three boxes)? > Of course if I miss something obvious here please correct me. dhcpcd != dhcpd, just in case you got it wrong. Anyway, if you didn't ;), I'd say dhcpcd is worth keeping in the system profile because I think it's "universal". It doesn't hurt the non-dhcp users. Imagine you have just installed Gentoo on a notebook. You have set it up at home where you aren't using dhcp. But then you go to some location where you just need dhcp because otherwise you cannot use the network. What would you do when you'd discover there's no dhcpcd installed yet? Well, of course you know it better next time, but I think it's nicer when it's just there by default :) -- Wolfram Schlich; Friedhofstr. 8, D-88069 Tettnang; +49-(0)178-SCHLICH -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list