On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:00:06AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > Am 30.09.2013 00:06, schrieb Walter Dnes: > > > * Everybody's single-NIC machine came up with eth0 for AGES, until Kay > > Seivers broke udev. And calling the new setup "predictable" is > > George Orwell 1984 doublespeak. Let's see you walk up to an unknown > > machine and "predict" what the NIC is going to come up as. > and you could predict with the old setup? > If think these new names are as stupid as it gets, but I had enough pain > in the past with multi-nic boxes shuffling eth0, eth1, ethn+1... > randomly on reboots. That was fun.
If the udev people had made "net ifnames=0" the default, and allowed the small percentage of multi-nic machine admins to set "net.ifnames=1", this would not have been an issue. Some corner case exotic setups require complex solutions... no ifs/ands/ors/buts. All the complaining you hear is from the other 99% who's setup worked just fine with the simple solution, suddenly finding the complex solution rammed down their throats. > > * Separate /usr worked fine for AGES, until... Do you see a pattern > > developing here? > > > seperate /usr has stopped working fine AGES AGO. Just some setups were > lucky enough not to stumble over the wreckage and fall into the shards. I.e. the 99% who don't need initramfs before today. Some corner case exotic setups require complex solutions... no ifs/ands/ors/buts. All the complaining you hear is from the other 99% who's setup worked just fine with the simple solution, suddenly finding the complex solution rammed down their throats. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
