-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 24/04/13 12:16 PM, William Hubbs 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 >
Current users should be able to do a -uDN and still have their existing systems work as-is. Whether you do this via a static dependency or one controlled by a use flag (and be sure use flag defaults would have oldnet installed by default) is up to you. It's completely understandable that openrc -the project- doesn't contain oldnet, but the end result on gentoo still should, by default, imo. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlF4Dy0ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPAQGwD+OEg6BV5rBEGylDr5R1cfMR80 oyE0Mwo4HWF/IEoTWk4A/jSvwkvz6mtx8Zuja/gzZogXVYHCVbVhARUXR195BGx2 =2754 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
