On 2011-10-18, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2011-10-18, YoYo Siska <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.7.0/net.example:
>>
>> ##############################################################################
>> # INTERFACE HANDLERS
>> #
>> # We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2.
>> # You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration.
>> # For ifconfig support, emerge sys-apps/net-tools
>> # For iproute2 support, emerge sys-apps/iproute2
>>
>> # If you don't specify an interface then we prefer iproute2 if it's installed
>> # To prefer ifconfig over iproute2
>> #modules="ifconfig"
>
> Apparenty the handbook is out of date.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3
>
> 3.b. Interface Handlers
>
> We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2.
> You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration.
>
> ifconfig is the current Gentoo default and it's included in the
> system profile. iproute2 is a more powerful and flexible package,
> but it's not included by default.
>
Done.
After re-reading those paragraphs a couple times, I've concluded that
the authors are talking about what is _installed_ by default, not what
is _used_ by default. In my bug report I've suggested that both be
explained.
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