Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown"):
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 09:08:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Whatever we do, we absolutely must bring up a fully configured loopback
> > interface by default.
> 
> Happily, our default init system already does that.
> 
> systemd's authors see the lo device as being less like networking and
> more like part of the "API" of a Linux machine, so pid 1 sets it up
> during early boot, rather than leaving it as the responsibility of
> whichever of ifupdown, NetworkManager, systemd-networkd etc. you're
> using. That seems like a reasonable approach to me.

If we take this approach, the recommendation that is being removed
from netbase should perhaps be moved to sysvinit, or something ?

Ian.