On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:43:08PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > > On 9/10/12 11:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Olivier Crête wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 09:48 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > >>> In researching this program, I have found that it and ifplugd, which is > > >>> the alternative, have been unmaintained for years. Also Debian has > > >>> declared netplugd to be obsolete in favor of ifplugd. > > >>> > > >>> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether we should keep OpenRC > > >>> support for one or both of these? > > >> > > >> The ifplugd author recommends you use NetworkManager for dynamic > > >> networking scenarios. > > > > > > NM seems bloated though unless you are using a desktop environment. It > > > wants to install 29 dependencies on my box. > > > > NM and connman are quite a bit overkill indeed. > > If you're on a server, you probably want a static configuration anyway, > not something dynamic.
I can agree that a server would probably want a static configuration, but all work stations do not use gnome, kde, etc. William
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