Hi there! As some of you have waited long for this to happen, sys-apps/openrc-0.5.1 is there. It has a default enabled (eapi-1) useflag oldnet to install the old-style network scripts called net.*. Regardless of this use-flag, the new init-script /etc/init.d/network is always installed.
For transition to new-style network script there is something todo I think. Unordered list of todos: * hotplug? at least udev does explicitly call in net.* scripts * New systems should get old or new scripts? * does new scripts already can do all that was possible with net.* ? So far I hope the update does not break any system. In case this happens nevertheless open a bug as usual. Regards Matthias