On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> >>> In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is
> >>> the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has
> >>> declared netplugd to be obsolete in favor of ifplugd.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC
> >>> support for one or both of these?
> >>
> >> The ifplugd author recommends you use NetworkManager for dynamic
> >> networking scenarios.
> >
> > NM seems bloated though unless you are using a desktop environment. It
> > wants to install 29 dependencies on my box.
> 
> NM and connman are quite a bit overkill indeed.

If you're on a server, you probably want a static configuration anyway,
not something dynamic.

-- 
Olivier Crête
tes...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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