From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23911 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Aug 2003 19:28:26 -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 1659 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2003 19:28:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3F47C082.8020900@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:29:06 -0400 From: Stewart Honsberger Organization: Gentoo Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030709 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius Mauch Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030823210429.57e7e85c.genone@genone.de> In-Reply-To: <20030823210429.57e7e85c.genone@genone.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ? X-Archives-Salt: 634ad48f-6820-48c1-8911-a3b7f132bfd6 X-Archives-Hash: e1f415b384680699edb3e4b5d14f758d Marius Mauch wrote: > what's the reason for dhcpcd being in the system profile [...] I agree completely. I maintain several Gentoo workstations that use PPPoE, static IPs, or ISC's DHCP server/client. On only a scant handfull of workstations do I use dhcpcd. I imagine with the popularity of SOHO ADSL, statically configured LANs et al. dhcpcd is rather useless to a large percentage of our userbase. Perhaps it could/should be relegated to the cron / syslog / kernel section of the install guide - eg, another optional component after the system is merged. I, for one, have always advocated that the base system be just that - enough to make the system useable upon first boot. Enough to allow root to log in and merge functionality and nothing more. Besides, then we can start a running tally; "Three years without an exploit in our base install!" (Apologies to Theo) -- Stewart Honsberger http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ "Capitalists, by nature, organize to protect themselves. -- Geeks, by nature, resist organizaion." -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list