On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:34:46PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:16:51PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > > > Considering our default configuration ships sshd (an argument we don't > > need to rehash here), it seems a bit silly to not ship networking > > support by default. I'd rather not do it as part of the system set, > > though that would be consistent with what we're doing with ssh, and it > > is still override-able. > To handle the various possible cases, maybe we need a "virtual/net" as > part of the system set, which can be satisfied by either oldnet or > newnet or whatever. The install ISO will have a basic working network > stack (IPV4+IPV6). After the initial install, the admin can do > whatever. Maybe even invoke package.provided.
This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in OpenRC. I would probably call it virtual/network-manager though. Are there any issues with putting together a virtual like this and adding it to @system? Thanks, William
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