On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> seems like a virtual that wouldn't do anything useful except pull in >> random package(s) a la binary-distribution style > > What about the stages? Don't we need some form of net support in > stage 3? >
That's debatable. For a typical install, the user has to install other basic stuff like a boot loader, kernel, etc. So having them also select a network config framework seems logical. Is there a use case for a stage3 in which installing netifrc by hand is impractical?
