On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:54 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Sunday 04 March 2007 09:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 04 March 2007 01:49:18 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > I'd probably be in favour of adding virtual/dhcpc to the base profile > > > too.. ;) > > > > Please don't do that. > > > > If I don't have DHCP on my network, nor want it, why should I be obliged to > > have it? > > > > While I'm on the subject, you might be able to tell me why the installation > > CDs don't properly ignore DHCP when told to on the boot command line. I > > always specify nodhcp, and the console log does duly say it is omitting > > broadcast detection, but the syslog on vt12 later says the attempt to > > detect one has timed out. This is not expected behaviour. > > It is a bug, > > Please report it.
Don't. We're aware of it. We're also aware that we don't bother fixing older releases for every bug, but rather try to ensure newer releases are as bug free as possible. You can blame udev, if you like. The constantly changing behavior of that package has made our lives a living hell. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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