Please don't do this. It sounds to me like a stupid move, what are you trying to accomplish? You already use Git/GitHub... Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes [email protected] — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:16 PM, William Hubbs <[email protected]> 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 >
