On Thursday 25 April 2013 15:09:28 [email protected] wrote: > On 04/24/13 21:17, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:06 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > >>> 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. > >> > >> Aside all the other, please don't name it like this :). It's just feels > >> wrong to start new and supposedly beneficial project and name it 'old' > >> like something you just thrown away off the main tree. > > > > The name is also per robbat2's request. I asked him about other names, > > but he specifically wanted oldnet in the name. > > > > A little bit of historical background may be in order here. > > > > In a nutshell, it is called old because Roy wanted to deprecate the > > whole thing eventually and switch us over to the newnet scripts that > > OpenRC has. > > name. > > > > We thought about killing off newnet entirely for a while in OpenRC, but > > I have since found that people do use it. It is more similar to what > > happens on the *bsd side, and it works well for simple setups. > > s/it works well for simple setups/it work wonderfully for very complex > setups/ > > It can mimic very closely the 'ip' command, making it easy to test on > commandline and just copy and paste in conf.d/net. > At the same time it benefit from a lot of howtos and tutorials written > for sys-apps/iproute2 > > "old"net is the best network manager out there including all major distro.
William is talking about newnet when he says "works well for simple setups" -mike
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