From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADA3138010 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F392F21C062; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C41421C012 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Nyx.local (dynamic-adsl-84-220-78-250.clienti.tiscali.it [84.220.78.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lu_zero) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7DEB433C559 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <504F7C61.1030508@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:01:05 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120821 Thunderbird/15.0 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: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc References: <20120910144832.GA22292@linux1> <1347308770.2027.1.camel@TesterTop4> <20120910210518.GA26213@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20120910210518.GA26213@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: d10bad08-3f45-4cbf-95b6-38ccab564331 X-Archives-Hash: d5c7b417aa108be178c01e76f9353f08 On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >>> In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is >>> the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has >>> declared netplugd to be obsolete in favor of ifplugd. >>> >>> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC >>> support for one or both of these? >> >> The ifplugd author recommends you use NetworkManager for dynamic >> networking scenarios. > > NM seems bloated though unless you are using a desktop environment. It > wants to install 29 dependencies on my box. NM and connman are quite a bit overkill indeed. lu