From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27595 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Aug 2003 16:27:02 -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 27361 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2003 16:27:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:27:00 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: Gentoo Developers Message-ID: <20030825162700.GA25059@kc5eiv.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo Developers References: <20030823210429.57e7e85c.genone@genone.de> <3F47CFBA.7040805@formoza-centre.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F47CFBA.7040805@formoza-centre.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ? X-Archives-Salt: f116e7f9-9ae8-4a3c-8d35-de5b051f3ab3 X-Archives-Hash: d5af49ea1c67eca7f1b36008713bbea6 Hi all, My only issue with dhcpcd in system is this: My isp is also comcast cable which uses dhcp. I also use dhcp for my home network, so my linux box is functioning as a dhcp client (for comcast) and dhcp server (for my home network). To get the dhcp server, you have to install the isc dhcp package. This also includes a dhcp client (dhclient). In other words, I have 2 dhcp clients on my system, which is not necessary. I would vote for a virtual/dhcp-client package which could be provided by the dhcpcd package and also by the isc dhcp package to prevent this. I'm not sure how much work this would require though to be sure that the net.* scripts in baselayout supported all of the dhcp clients gentoo supports. What do you think? William -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list