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

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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What about PPPoE? I don't think that hurts people who don't use it either? 
Maybe include some basic dialup tools at the same time?
IMO, stuff in system should be what is actually required... If it included 
things that were common for a particular installation, then there would 
likely be more than just default-*, and if I'm wrong about what system should 
be for, let me know because it would mean I should probably be using a new 
profile for InGen instead of making a custom automated etc-update to protect 
InGen's make.conf...

On Saturday 23 August 2003 07:20 pm, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> * Marius Mauch <genone@genone.de> [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 :)

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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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