Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 05:24:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:43:36 -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> 
> > I just got around to upgrading to it. When I did my /etc/conf.d/net
> > file disappeared, and my network interface would not come up. There is
> > not even a sample net file any more.  I had to manually add it back,
> > using a syntax I found on the wiki site. 
> 
> I lost conf.d/net too, but there is still a sample file, but it is owned
> by netifrc, which is now a dependency of openrc.
> 
> Note to those using USE="-* I_WANT_TO_BREAK_MY_SYSTEM", you will break it
> when installing the new openrc because you won't get this package.

  Thanks for the update.  I've updated my /etc/portage/package.use
accordingly.  It hasn't happened to me, so I'm not in a position to file
a bug report, but WTF is the openrc ebuild doing deleting
/etc/conf.d/net ?!?!?  In many cases, removing a package will not remove
its config file.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications