On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:31 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 04:30:30PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> 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? > > Personally, I don't know of one. Does anyone else? >
Thinking on this further, the same logic could be applied to sys-apps/openrc, and probably a few other packages that are not build/toolchain critical. I suppose we need to draw a sanity line somewhere. ^_^
