Bug 535960

Summary:	net-misc/dhcpcd - add USE=embedded (configure --enable-embedded)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Schultz <mattsch>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, roy
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Schultz 2015-01-07 18:52:25 UTC

net-misc/dhcpcd should have embedded use flag.  Although I wouldn't change the file, I think it would be helpful to have embedded disabled so it installs dhcpcd-definitions.conf which gives a nice list of options that can be used in /etc/dhcpcd.conf which are otherwise not defined in any other documentation.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Roy Marples 2015-01-09 15:25:21 UTC

The way the options are constructed is documented in dhcpcd.conf(5).
dhcpcd-definitions.conf is composed entirely of RFC options. It is fully descriptive, but has a few limitations still - namely the ability to name bits of a byte as a flag and some other minor edge cases.

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2015-01-30 18:38:21 UTC

I added the use flag in 6.7.1. However, it is enabled by default to
follow upstream.

Let me know if you think there is a good case for not enabling it by
default.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 3 Matthew Schultz 2015-01-30 19:27:38 UTC

(In reply to William Hubbs from comment #2)
> I added the use flag in 6.7.1. However, it is enabled by default to
> follow upstream.
> 
> Let me know if you think there is a good case for not enabling it by
> default.
> 
> Thanks for the report.

Thanks for adding the use flag.