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Re: Remove dhclient(8) from base



Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:

> > Could dhcpcd behave as dhclient when argv{0] is dhclient? That way
> > we could hardlink dhclient to dhcpcd and remove it while no user
> > would get surprised by the change.
> 
> That wouldn't be great. At lot of installations would use the -cf option
> to specify a configuration file of which dhcpcd's is totally different.

Then send an error message if -cf is present. 

I immagine not being able to just fire dhclient with no arguments on an
install media: that would be rather annoying if I did not know about the
alternative yet: no man page, no internet connexion.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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