-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2013 07:42 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Honestly, I'm not really sure why anyone would want to make stage3 less >> functional than it already is but honestly net isn't something I'm ready >> to give up just yet. > > It isn't about making the stage3 less functional, but about giving the > user a choice. We don't stick a kernel in stage3, despite the fact > that everybody needs one. We don't stick an MTA in the stage3 despite > the fact that one of those is pretty hard to live without. > > Now that Gentoo apparently offers a wide selection of network > managers, perhaps it makes sense to have the user pick which one they > want to use.
Choice is fine, I love choice, but to have a user unpack a stage tarball and find no way at all to handle their networking.... that's just ugly. I mean we could just have dhcpcd in @system and let people figure it out from there (wouldn't be my first choice but it would work) but I would say it is rare enough to not need net that removing all networking options from stage3 is near suicidal. I can do all kinds of amazing things on a system without an MTA. But if I have no net I can't even install net.... - -Zero -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSoy8/AAoJEKXdFCfdEflK+a4P/056EtlWAr12QT7HdeoLhL2d +OQ2P53jd+fChB5NlrxKLot/+hvf+0PuJXkJU76hDBJ+1g9UkjSsYy1YGhPQ0rTU d5Ugqn0ZWIrON5QLx4CKH9XUjuN0jW2IlXXGpQApCrsBKv28vRM/oTi9jvC27IAP IdvD7QBUyN4L+K9z8cOWa1jckZahCrNrsWzgfoCDyJfDep+qeRXe0EbriHvXyfBm iT295qLUWjR1577bPRNwe7/H0tAe+yoexcJa/M3U4KiSX5qxlqwxr0aN6lFRNevj 1hB7xONTLa08sjx/NxzTID0zMoiZSlmkBLk/V3rj6uYkaFsjo89NvAfNhKZXerWf sLG/ivFKLFdeghZe6ItTDxIToTm0EnMPI8by8ZRD/xZ6MMre1QnDhODrVx0uMPl2 DRcoe3wItI1ZlX33I+ktF7iP5QZUvL59k15jBCoSnmU8mxSyM+REB/5O7IgLJvGI +SMoQB14+WwE/jDvz3HVqCifkwU2GDg3t3NT7lUq8yinovGjISufSuDdPY/croFl kgCLJ5JlEkHkv3EQPyce0ad6zkf6gpc4rWKv3hxxpSNDkKQ7CJyd51zF9S0bWztx 4KjAB5GJRNVxCEcWuh6F8/cSlh3yGTxrbJRh8M3SL1l3JPAo+xcK5nFwZ9Wz/ubk 3jpHrLIuH6+71NPsbZc/ =8QVC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
