On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Nikolay Orlyuk <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that system set was intended to describe basic system which can > boot install packages. It is. `ping` and `ifconfig` are definitely not required to boot your system.
> If user unpacks Exherbo stage under some livecd and will re-boot system it > will end up with useless system that can't be upgraded and can't install any > package. Except if user have distfiles mirror. The most we provide in terms of networking in the stages is `dhcpcd` and `systemd-networkd`. `dhcpcd` is in the stages set, which from general consensus, `iproute2`, `iputils`, and `net-tools` will all end up in the stages set rather than the system set as well. > Right now it looks like installation guide do not mention anything about > installing network utilities. And it includes only phrase: You may want to > re-install the packages included in the stage . Thus there is nothing that > can trigger installation of such packages. That's true, but that's because we expect the user to install the network tools they need, unless they just end up using `dhcpcd`. > Regarding ifconfig and friends. That stuff may still be used by some binary > packages like proprietary Juniper VPN. > So I don't think it is good idea to drop it completely from packages. Unless > someone will write nice wrappers to actually use ip. I have no plans whatsoever to bury the packages or anything, just to remove them from the system set, and move them to the stages set instead. > Cheers _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
