On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:56:33AM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, William Hubbs wrote: > > > My issue with what we are currently doing is not whether we have a > > default network provider in the stages or not, but it is just that the > > netifrc use flag on OpenRC is bogus. OpenRC doesn't need netifrc for any > > reason. > > William, > > the "push" for the use flag was to ensure that users would keep the > existing networking functionaility and more importantly their network > configuration. Without it, portage would "happily" clean /etc/conf.d/net - > something not desirable by most.
Hi Jorge, Portage will not clean /etc/conf.d/net, and this is not related to the use flag. That is handled by the block starting at line 212 in openrc-0.12.4.ebuild. I had to modify the file so portage wouldn't remove it. The push for the use flag was because people didn't think it was enough for me to put out a news item telling them that they should emerge netifrc if they wanted to continue using it once this version of OpenRC was installed. William
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