On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:52:23AM -0700, Joshua Saddler wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500
> William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is centering
> > on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both.
> 
> Use "oldnet." Why?
> 
> 1. We already have a migration guide setup for it:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
> 
> Keeping "oldnet" will greatly reduce the time needed to change all our other 
> docs, since I can use it as a reference, without needing write a completely 
> new migration guide for "oldnet" and *then* still have to change all our 
> other docs.
> 
> 2. Users are already accustomed to doing things via "oldnet," since they've 
> been using OpenRC and following this guide for two years now, since 2008.

I'm fine with it being the default for stable for now.

However, I do think that once we stabilize it, we
can learn something from parts of newnet, and possibly use what it was
trying to do.  

William

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