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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