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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC
From:       "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <mva () mva ! name>
Date:       2013-04-25 16:50:20
Message-ID: 51795ECC.4030603 () mva ! name
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Hey, all!

Just one question: why do you all talking about IUSE=+oldnet, but not
REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( net oldnet )" for example?



24.04.2013 23:16, William Hubbs пишет:
> All,
> 
> it has been suggested that gentoo's oldnet scripts be split out into
> their own package separate from OpenRC so that they can be developed
> independently. I am looking at doing this for OpenRC 0.12, which I hope
> to release soon.
> 
> This means when you emerge or upgrade to openrc-0.12, the net.* scripts
> will no longer be included. I am going to call the separate package that
> includes these scripts gentoo-oldnet.
> 
> My plan is  to write a newsitem when OpenRC 0.12 is released
> telling users this and that they will have to emerge gentoo-oldnet to
> get the gentoo networking scripts or turn on the newnet (maybe I'll
> change this to net) use flag to get OpenRC's network scripts installed
> and put ewarns in the ebuild if this use flag is turned off.
> 
> I feel that a newsitem and ewarns in the OpenRC ebuild cover live
> systems well. In a nutshell, users should pay attention to their news
> items and ewarns.
> 
> On the other hand, some are suggesting that I should add a runtime
> dependency to OpenRC so that it pulls in gentoo-oldnet. Since OpenRC
> doesn't need gentoo-oldnet in order to run, I feel like this would be
> abusing dependencies.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
> 
> William
> 



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