On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The default is to use the old net.ethx style network scripts, which > still work as usual, so, that is why I said that I disagree about there > being a regression. A regression means that something worked before, > but it doesn't now, and that is not the case if you accept the defaults. >
Agreed, not a regression. [snip] > Yes, I would agree that there should be a warning about > turning off the oldnet use flag, but I don't think this warrants masking > the ebuild, unless I am missing something. If I am, definitely let me > know. > If the USE-flags of an ebuild are visible to the user, it can be assumed that they are safe to use (after following the documentation and warnings if any). Which means that the maintainer needs to be even more careful w.r.t. system packages; providing adequate warnings and documentation. If there's no documentation on how to use the new network scripts; there should atleast be a big /FAT/ warning. Obviously the documentation must be updated soon as well; unless the ebuild never intends to make it to stable ;) Personally, I wouldn't even dream of adding a core package like openrc to ~arch until there was documentation about unexpected behaviour (default or not). But to each his own. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo
