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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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  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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