Rich Freeman wrote: > Now that Gentoo apparently offers a wide selection of network > managers, perhaps it makes sense to have the user pick which > one they want to use.
+1 Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: > Choice is fine, I love choice, but to have a user unpack a stage tarball > and find no way at all to handle their networking.... that's just ugly. The system where you unpack the stage likely already handles networking. > I would say it is rare enough to not need net that removing all > networking options from stage3 is near suicidal. I disagree. Not everything is connected. I also like that there's no syslog and no cron in stage3. > I can do all kinds of amazing things on a system without an MTA. > But if I have no net I can't even install net.... If you need net then make sure to install the manager you prefer during installation. I think that makes a lot of sense. //Peter
