[plug] Interface not being brought up on bootup

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:00:54PM +0800, James Devenish 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?

You may be right...  but then you wouldn't be able to have netbase and
inetutils-ifconfig installed simultaneously, which would be dodgy.
Calling inetutils' binary something other than ifconfig would probably
be a better solution.

After reading through another bug filed on inetutils it sounds as though
(a) all of inetutils is very beta; and (b) inetutils' ifconfig was
designed to give Debian GNU Hurd an ifconfig, which will eventually
become command-line compatible with netkit's.  Probably.

| > 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.

A lot of the stuff in alternatives are vague like "x-window-manager" and
so on.  ifconfig interacts only through the command line, and two
ifconfigs with completely different command-line syntax, one of which
has been around since forever, is just asking for trouble.

Cameron.

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