On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:27 PM Felix Yan <felixonm...@archlinux.org> wrote:

> As you may or may not have noticed, both `ppp` and `rp-pppoe` package
> used to ship a `rp-pppoe.so` and they are not 100% compatible. Back in
> 2021, ppp 2.4.9 starts to rename its own copy of `rp-pppoe.so` to
> `pppoe.so`. As of `ppp 2.5.0`, upstream decided to remove the
> `rp-pppoe.so` symlink and thus broke configurations with the old name.
>
> If you still have the old ppp package's `rp-pppoe.so` configured
> somewhere (likely in /etc/ppp/peers/), please update it to use just
> `pppoe.so`. Configurations with the same plugin from the `rp-pppoe`
> package (using full path like /usr/lib/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe.so) are not
> affected.
>

Bare PPP seems obscure enough a post_upgrade message might be sufficient?
I've only ever used PPP with NetworkManager, which handles this already.

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