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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Steev Klimaszewski <steev@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 20:33 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
> You're thinking with your x86/amd64 hat on here.

Actually, I probably just underquoted.  I am well-aware that there are
issues with ARM, hence my previous suggestion that it might make sense
to vary this by profile.

Let me try my post again, with a bit more quoting:

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
<zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:
> What if he wants to
> put a stage3 on a disk for his amd64 box from his arm box?  I'd love to
> see him emulate an amd64 from his arm to install dhcpcd.
...
> I really don't like the idea of having no networking in the stage3 by
> default, however, I'm becoming more open minded on what qualifies as
> networking.  What I'm wrestling with is this, what if I want to slap a
> stage3 on a device and then access it from the network?
> Almost nothing
> in my place has a monitor (amd64 and arm alike) and I use one of my two
> laptops to talk to everything else.

Hit your head on the wall because it doesn't contain a kernel?
Stage3s in general aren't functional systems.

Insofar as much as he was talking about ARM I get the point.  Insofar
as he is taking about amd64, not so much.  Which he was talking about
in that paragraph I can only guess at.

But as I later said in the same email:

If it actually had collisions with other network managers I think
there would be more of a case for removing it.

After all, we stick openrc and portage (the PM) in the stage3 and you
don't exactly need those in order to run Gentoo...

Rich