Re: cleaning up our task packages
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Now John, I consider myself fairly competent; however, with three dhcp
> clients to choose from (an actual situation from many months ago) many
> folks won't know which one is *best*, as defined by ``works on the
> kernel as shipped''. How are end users, installing their first Debian
> box, supposed to know that bozo-dhcpcd hasn't been supported for many
> months (but is still in the distribution) but bozo-dhclient-clown is
> known to work on the kernel shipped by Debian, is well-supported, and
> runs easily.
I should point out that your example is bad.. dhcpcd is not well
supported and is in fact broken in the Debian package in ways that I
haven't had time and patience to track down yet - relating to its init
file mostly - but it's the only client that works with my cable modem.
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