Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

["Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>]

Please don't do this. It sounds to me like a stupid move, what are you
trying to accomplish? You already use Git/GitHub...
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:16 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> it has been suggested that gentoo's oldnet scripts be split out into
> their own package separate from OpenRC so that they can be developed
> independently. I am looking at doing this for OpenRC 0.12, which I hope
> to release soon.
>
> This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts
> will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate package that
> includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet.
>
> My plan is  to write a newsitem when OpenRC 0.12 is released
> telling users this and that they will have to emerge gentoo-oldnet to
> get the gentoo networking scripts or turn on the newnet (maybe I'll
> change this to net) use flag to get OpenRC's network scripts installed
> and put ewarns in the ebuild if this use flag is turned off.
>
> I feel that a newsitem and ewarns in the OpenRC ebuild cover live
> systems well. In a nutshell, users should pay attention to their news
> items and ewarns.
>
> On the other hand, some are suggesting that I should add a runtime
> dependency to OpenRC so that it pulls in gentoo-oldnet. Since OpenRC
> doesn't need gentoo-oldnet in order to run, I feel like this would be
> abusing dependencies.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> William
>