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On 24/04/13 09:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:32:44PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
> wrote:
>> On 04/24/2013 07:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>>> 
>>> This would actually be cleaner than a bogus dependency in
>>> OpenRC. I would probably call it virtual/network-manager
>>> though.
>>> 
>> You can't call it virtual/network-manager, that calls to mind,
>> you know, net-misc/networkmanager.  That's just too confusing
>> imho.  I wouldn't object to virtual/net, or pretty much anything
>> else that isn't confusing.  The net scripts are not a network
>> manager, networkmanager, wicd, even wpa_supplicant would be
>> things I would consider to be network managers.
> 
> But the oldnet scripts do run wpa_supplicant, dhcp clients, etc,
> for each interface they manage.
> 
> Newnet doesn't even try that, it just manages static interfaces
> and assumes that you will use a dhcp client or something like
> wpa_supplicant in standalone mode to control your interfaces.
> 

virtual/network-init  ?


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