On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:58:21PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -----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. The issue is that OpenRC does not have any kind of dependency on gentoo-oldnet at all. There will be a separate loopback script in OpenRC so it is possible to run OpenRC on a system without the oldnet or newnet scripts. In fact, this is a completely valid configuration.
OpenRC doesn't "link" to gentoo-oldnet in any way, so there is no dependency. The way I read the dev manual [1], a newsitem and postinst messages are the way to go for somethinglike this. William [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/index.html
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