Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> (2014-08-20): > On 14/08/14 18:32, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Now, I think there are several questions to answer: > > 1. What were the reasons for having arch-dependent dhcp clients? > > I'd speculate because udhcpc from busybox is very small, and > isc-dhcp-client-udeb was about 2 MiB. It targets (currently only builds > on) Linux; there is a bug open somewhere about porting it to kfreebsd; > it's infeasible before the jessie freeze, and IMHO I think I prefer to > keep the ISC version (mostly from a security POV).
2MiB looks like a candidate for huge savings, which might make some sense since we're repeatedly hitting ENOSPC with kfreebsd-*, don't you think? Not trying to impose any decision, just a bit shocked while discovering its size. Mraw, KiBi.
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