How about someone decide which is the best version and keep it integrated
in OpenRC? There's no best version? diff the two of them and merge what
matters. I mean, how many distros do you know that have two sets of init
scripts *just* to configure networking? I know Gentoo is about choice, but
this feels a little too much choice. What will I choose next? Someone can
 decide that keymap needs a refactor and just fork it, of maybe hostname,
or <insert_some_stupid_but_*needed*_init_script_here>.

Just my 2 cents...


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <
zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote
> >>
> >>> Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't
> >>> need to rehash here), it seems a bit silly to not ship networking
> >>> support by default.  I'd rather not do it as part of the system set,
> >>> though that would be consistent with what we're doing with ssh, and it
> >>> is still override-able.
> >>   To handle the various possible cases, maybe we need a "virtual/net" as
> >> part of the system set, which can be satisfied by either oldnet or
> >> newnet or whatever.  The install ISO will have a basic working network
> >> stack (IPV4+IPV6).  After the initial install, the admin can do
> >> whatever.  Maybe even invoke package.provided.
> >
> > 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.
>
> - -Zero
>
> > Are there any issues with putting together  a virtual like this and
> > adding it to @system?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > William
> >
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