Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown"): > On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 09:08:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Whatever we do, we absolutely must bring up a fully configured loopback > > interface by default. > > Happily, our default init system already does that. > > systemd's authors see the lo device as being less like networking and > more like part of the "API" of a Linux machine, so pid 1 sets it up > during early boot, rather than leaving it as the responsibility of > whichever of ifupdown, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd etc. you're > using. That seems like a reasonable approach to me.
If we take this approach, the recommendation that is being removed from netbase should perhaps be moved to sysvinit, or something ? Ian.