On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:43:28PM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 2013-12-03, at 4:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I would like to add a virtual/network-manager package to @system which > > has the following rdepend settings: > > > > RDEPEND=" || ( > > net-misc/netifrc > > >=sys-apps/openrc-0.12[newnet] > > net-misc/badvpn > > net-misc/dhcpcd > > net-misc/netctl > > net-misc/NetworkManager > > net-misc/wicd )" > > > > Does anyone see an issue with setting it up this way? > > > > William > > > > well, there is the issue where dhcpcd being installed (which is common > for netifrc support) is going to allow netifrc to be cleaned... > similar for NM and Wicd I expect, if those aren't in @world ....
Please correct me if I am wrong. You can install NM or wicd and remove netifrc and have a working system, correct? Dhcpcd can be run as a standalone service or per interface. In standalone mode, the default is to automatically configure any unconfigured interfaces it finds on your system, but this can be configured (see dhcpcd.conf (5)). So, I'm wondering what the advantage of running dhcpcd per interface is? William
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