Doug and Brian, I'm going to reply in a little more detail. On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 21:03 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:49:46AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:38 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> > > >> wrote: > > > >> OK... so gentoo-networking? or just come up with own name? > > >> best-networking? > > > > > > You and I have had this talk more times than I can remember at this > > point. Using the name "oldnet" sucks and was one of the worst choices > > possible. Looking through our IRC chats, I had also suggested > > gentoo-networking.
I thought about gentoo-networking, but that sucks in a way too because
it implies that everyone on gentoo should be using it.
That's not quite right because we have at least five network stacks I
can think of off the top of my head, and OpenRc upstream supports
another.
- OpenRc upstream supports newnet, which I have played with, and I
believe people on Gentoo are using successfully.
- what we have been calling the oldnet stack, which most gentoo users
have been using.
- dhcpcd in standalone mode.
- wicd
- NetworkManager
- badvpn
> How about gen-net? It's nice, short and the name is more flexible if
> the pkg is picked up by other distros (something bantied about during
> previous discussions).
Hmm, that is a little too cryptic maybe... Is gen "Gentoo? General?
Generic?"
> > If we lose that flexibility and configurability then just give up on
> > OpenRC right now cause its dead because all interesting features are
> > gone and it'll just become an inferior init system that needs to be
> > replaced.
> >
>
> ++
As I have said before, none of this is an attempt to kill or deprecate
anything. It is just re-arranging things by moving the old gentoo
network stack into its own package. There are no plans to stop you from
using it if you want to use it. There is definitely nothing being said
here about the state of OpenRc in general.
William
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