On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > Simon McVittie wrote:
> >> One thing that an adopter could very usefully do with ifupdown would be
> >> to coordinate with the systemd maintainers on moving net.agent
> >> (Debian-specific udev glue to invoke ifupdown) from udev into ifupdown,
> >> so that it does not need to be present at all on systems that rely on a
> >> non-ifupdown tool like NM. That would also mean that the ifupdown
> >> maintainer would be free to alter the precise details of how net.agent
> >> and ifupdown interact, since they would now control both ends of the "API".
> >
> > I'd *love* to see that happen.  I've seen discussions about that, and
> > they always seemed to stall out.
> 
> Then why not submit patches to ifupdown? It is not like it offers any
> benefit to ifupdown users, so it is not really something the ifupdown
> maintainer would be inclined to go out of his/her way to accomplish.
> You can QA upload it really easily now too.

Because I have no interest in developing ifupdown; I'd just like to see
net.agent no longer run on systems *without* ifupdown.

- Josh Triplett


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