-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-06-25 at 09:28, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:46:28AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: > >>>> It isn't because: 1) the new names are predictable but not >>>> constant, so you can't configure a single default across all >>>> systems >>> >>> Which seems reasonable to describe as "unpredictable". >> >> They're perfectly predictable for a given system. > > And reasonably unpredictable between systems. > > Just reiterating the case where they *are* predictable misses my point > so badly that it almost seems as if it must be intentional. > >> The old names also weren't constant, but people didn't seem to care >> as much about the nuances because "that's the way it's always been". >> (Sometimes it was an eth, sometimes it was a wlan, etc.) Why were >> those differences ok but these differences aren't? Familiarity. > > No, not just familiarity. > > To the best of my awareness, the old names were 100% constant, as long > as you had no more than one interface *of a given type*.
Quite so. > [...] > With the new names, the fact that two interfaces get different name > prefixes (etc.) tells you basically nothing useful about how to handle > them; it just exposes underlying hardware details of some kind, which > you don't actually need to know in order to make effective use of those > interfaces. To some degree. Unless they've changed *again* (I don't follow the "latest and greatest" changes that closely), you essentially get "en[...]" and "wl[...]" in place of 'eth0' and 'wlan0', respectively. That being said, the "new" names are relatively clunky to use when working outside of "my machine here" (e.g. with users abandoning W10). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl0TRvUACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooFB9wf+MLfx2BrNGRphEH7QyBWAn1+JEdQ8LzwOVx0z3emkQavrMyHocUrafO7d TMUwSlT/yYasePwLh7mwn1ii9/z2jmiegwdR8Ip5w6YmfSszjOu006GtKoUvHe4R 4QATY2ZiZxg0BCCWtnAG48flb81c0n+8/eC4x3OGbiSFu0/JYGEuQiWSrPeT8fRi w9O2CA027fz6zOM+LZe1hMFNwOkManniKYrovxUqb6ydRaqyrLL9QDaWjOdBITUc EskGRSNz2eTA6aIPrl8K3C++2C0JPYjgWpbOqXwPBasXMfd0C6YSX7Gpo3mJajFq muN9VYkHO9ia6adcs+R8CrTi0x67ug== =sff2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
