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Re: base-files: please ship /etc/networks and include "link-local 169.254.0.0" to it



Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:

> I'd like to receive comments about:
> - shipping /etc/networks in netbase
> - adding 169.254.0.0 to it

The second makes sense to me.  Why would moving it to base-files make
sense, though?  I thought the theory was that a system without any network
interface or networking programs would not need netbase, and such a system
would similarly not have this network defined or used.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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