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 99B2A1381F3 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB887E0AAA; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8809E0A70 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-195-43.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.195.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D80833BDD7 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <517890FD.5080500@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:12:13 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.4 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: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC References: <20130424161606.GA1607@linux1> <51780F2D.7060007@gentoo.org> <20130424172323.GB2323@linux1> <201304241334.37807.vapier@gentoo.org> <20130424175407.GA2404@linux1> <20130424223446.GA12947@waltdnes.org> <20130424231701.GA3133@linux1> <51786B9C.9070607@gentoo.org> <20130425011023.GB3133@linux1> <5178894A.9060506@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5178894A.9060506@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6760c6de-207a-4f14-a71c-abe19f8ac054 X-Archives-Hash: 8221633f9976d3c851ffd1c923e4d711 On 04/24/2013 06:39 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 24/04/13 09:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:32:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> wrote: >>> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>>> >>>> This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in >>>> OpenRC. I would probably call it virtual/network-manager >>>> though. >>>> >>> You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind, >>> you know, net-misc/networkmanager. That's just too confusing >>> imho. I wouldn't object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything >>> else that isn't confusing. The net scripts are not a network >>> manager, networkmanager, wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be >>> things I would consider to be network managers. > >> But the oldnet scripts do run wpa_supplicant, dhcp clients, etc, >> for each interface they manage. > >> Newnet doesn't even try that, it just manages static interfaces >> and assumes that you will use a dhcp client or something like >> wpa_supplicant in standalone mode to control your interfaces. > > > virtual/network-init ? Sounds about right. Also, rather than "gentoo-oldnet", maybe a name like "gentoo-network-init" makes sense, since I suspect that the vast majority of users are still using it. If newnet is split out, maybe call it "openrc-newnet-init" or something. -- Thanks, Zac