[plug] Interface not being brought up on bootup

[James Devenish]

In message <20031110083632.GE3569 at erdos.home>
on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:36:32PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> They're installed in different places so there's no /need/ to need to
> have a Conflicts: line - nothing actually breaks[1]

*If* both insist on calling themselves 'ifconfig' then shouldn't they
conflict? Otherwise, shouldn't they name themselves differently and use
alternatives? How typical is it that you can have two identically-named
programmes that behave incompatibly? I thought it would be "historical"
or incorrect to have `man 1 blah` and `man 8 blah` returning different
results. (I assume inetutils-tools puts a man page in section 1.)

> net-tools also contains a heck of a lot more than just ifconfig.

Okay, inetutils-tools was wrong, by the sound of it.

> Using the alternatives system would be bad because they're incompatible
> from a command-line perspective.

Huh? Half the stuff in the alternatives system is incompatible from
a command-line perspective. That's why you need to be able to select
those alternatives.

PS. Sorry if I sound ratty today.


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