From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ8eU-0004cG-KI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:56:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2A6C21C25A; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:56:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3EC21C06A for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.131] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.72.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA3501B4019 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EA857B1.4000705@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:55:45 -0400 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110920 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: removing newnet from openrc References: <20111026185009.GB28040@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20111026185009.GB28040@linux1> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 01eb29af18e892c272cdce09c47e829f -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk6oV7EACgkQAJxUfCtlWe1QpAEAqK8u6Lbz4XAOoPTmibdbgwmy 7aJj5O5wBjb4ASVfDbEA/iQgNkd1seB9IeBTz8d+/xEclg4ZDHgVv+wX4AnZIJs/ =PZL7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----