Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:56:33AM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, William Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > My issue with what we are currently doing is not whether we have a
> > default network provider in the stages or not, but it is just that the
> > netifrc use flag on OpenRC is bogus. OpenRC doesn't need netifrc for any
> > reason.
> 
> William,
> 
> the "push" for the use flag was to ensure that users would keep the 
> existing networking functionaility and more importantly their network 
> configuration. Without it, portage would "happily" clean /etc/conf.d/net - 
> something not desirable by most.

Hi Jorge,

Portage will not clean /etc/conf.d/net, and this is not related to the
use flag. That is handled by the block starting at line 212 in
openrc-0.12.4.ebuild. I had to modify the file so portage
wouldn't remove it.

The push for the use flag was because people didn't think it was enough
for me to put out a news item telling them that they should emerge
netifrc if they wanted to continue using it once this version of OpenRC
was installed.

William


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