Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 02/12/13 04:19 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote: [...]
>> Also, the other message in this thread is correct; the netifrc
>> use flag is temporary.
> 
>> I originally planned to release openrc-0.12.x along with a
>> newsitem that instructed you to emerge the netifrc package if you
>> want the legacy network stack, but some users/devs felt that
>> Ishould go further to make sure netifrc remains installed on
>> their systems.
> 
> As one of those devs, I feel now may be a good time to ask.... What
> are we doing about this?  In my opinion, anyone removing net
> support from the stage3's should be killed with fire.  That said, I
> don't care if it's netifrc or whatever as long as it is properly
> documented and actually usable.
> 
> Thoughts on how we move forward?
> 
> Thanks, Zero
> 

Well, part of this conversation needs to be, what is the default
networking stack that we want to have in gentoo?  IMO that should
remain netifrc but that's just my personal opinion.

After deciding that, I expect we should decide how to include it.  My
guess would be, since for whatever reason we don't want netifrc as
part of @system or a dep of baselayout-2 or anything like that, we'd
need to add it to the special releng include list?
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