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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc 0.12 - netifrc/newnet mix-up
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, William Hubbs wrote:

> My issue with what we are currently doing is not whether we have a
> default network provider in the stages or not, but it is just that the
> netifrc use flag on OpenRC is bogus. OpenRC doesn't need netifrc for any
> reason.

William,

the "push" for the use flag was to ensure that users would keep the 
existing networking functionaility and more importantly their network 
configuration. Without it, portage would "happily" clean /etc/conf.d/net - 
something not desirable by most.