[arch-projects] [netctl][PATCH 1/2] Factor out DHCP client support

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
>> Even better, if networkd exposes a lot of its functionality, netctl
>> could potentially drop the dependency on iproute2 (not that there is a
>> problem with iproute2).
>
> Yes, static things like bridge, bond, and vlan for which netctl profiles are
> essentially identical to .net{dev,work} files. I think that the only advantage
> of netctl over networkd in this case is the ability to specify dependencies
> (via Before= and After=) between the respective units.

So networkd should sort out all that internally, but please let me
know if you notice a usecase we are not covering.

Cheers,

Tom