From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: removing newnet from openrc
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:55:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA857B1.4000705@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111026185009.GB28040@linux1>
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On 26/10/11 02:50 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> openrc has two network stacks currently. The first is the one most
> people are using afaik, the net.* scripts, which I will call oldnet in
> the rest of this message.
>
> The second is the network and staticroute scripts, which we do not use
> or support in gentoo, primarily because it does not allow the
> flexability of the oldnet scripts. I will call these scripts newnet.
>
> If there are no objections, I want to remove the newnet scripts before
> the next release.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> William
>
It's been a while since I hung out in #gentoo, but one of the last times
I was there (say, July?), there were people supporting the use of the
newnet method (and i *think* were actually trying to get people to switch).
Personally, I prefer oldnet and would support the removal of newnet.
Ian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-26 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 18:50 [gentoo-dev] rfc: removing newnet from openrc William Hubbs
2011-10-26 18:55 ` Ian Stakenvicius [this message]
2011-10-27 3:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-10-26 20:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
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