Mark Kettenis:

> I don't really see what this buys us.  You still have to maintain the
> backwards compat code.  You'll end up with an inconsistent mess of
> hostname.if and if.whatever files.  And all of this to fix what exactly?

To preserve my sanity every time I need to figure out how to bring
ifconfig commands into a format that passes through the transformations
done by the hostname.if parser.

Remember how we were struggling with -autoconfprivacy a few months
ago?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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