On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> wrote:
- perhaps change the PKGBUILD to contain replaces=netcfg
Does it? I mean: 1) could netcfg and netctl live side-by-side; and 2) is netctl backwards compatible with netcfg?
@1) yes, but they should not be installed simultaniously as they use the same folder for their profiles, but the profiles are not interchangeable unless you define all variables twice. @2) no.
- write an announcement and an installation message - move the package to [core]
I think putting it in [extra] for a few releases would be more appropriate so we can see how it all shakes out.
Thats okay, but I don't plan on maintaining two similar projects of which I think one is a dead end. I think it is a good thing Arch has the essentials of a profile-based network configuration out of the box. Keep in mind that openresolv needs to move to [core] if netctl ends up over there. As said before, netctl + openresolv is still less lines of code than netcfg. - Jouke