On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:09:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:21:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Etherconf never invokes anything other than ifup and ifdown. It's ifup > > that has the smarts. I know it already handles dhcp-client and pump; > > i think (but may be wrong) that Branden has seen it work with udhcpc. > > So what you're saying is that the standard interface should be that > provided by ifup and ifdown. No, that's how *etherconf* elects to take advantage of DHCP clients. There's no onus on anything else to work that way. > There's nothing particularly wrong with that - it's just that it needs > to be know that that's how things work. But it isn't, necessarily. > Perhaps some sort of interface description ought to be added to the > virtual packages list in policy? I still don't think that is necessary. Do you formally object to the proposed update to the virtual packages list? -- G. Branden Robinson | To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to branden@debian.org | unlearn old falsehoods. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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