On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:01 PM, 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.
> 
> While you are at it, please also switch from wireless-tools to iw :)
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261655
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
> 

I think that we should be using the new tools by now, it's been in development for the last ten years.  There would have to be some sort of migration path for people to use though.

-- Matthew Thode