Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc: use iproute2 for all network handling in linux

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:01:43PM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> William Hubbs schrieb:
> > I realize there would be a trade-off if I stop supporting linux's
> > ifconfig and route in openrc, but how much of a trade-off? Would the
> > benefits of iproute2 outweigh the down side of not supporting ifconfig
> > and route on linux?
> > 
> > What does everyone think?
> 
> +1
> Do you need iproute2 at all? I think you could fall back to busybox if
> iproute2 is not installed.
 
 I haven't looked at busybox that much yet, but I know that ip is part
 of it, so that may be a possibility.

> While you are at it, please also switch from wireless-tools to iw :)
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261655

Yeah I know about that bug. :-) I want to get 0.9.5 out the door and
make that a stable candidate, then after that, I will look into both of
these.

William

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