Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:43:08PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
> 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.

I can agree that a server would probably want a static configuration,
but all work stations do not use gnome, kde, etc.

William


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