Curious as to why dhcpcd is still a part of the the default profiles. I have nothing against the people needing it, but your dialup users are getting it by default, While I will admit the possibility of some users needing both for whatever reasons, and a blocker or virtual would probably start to complicate things for the few needing both (the best scenario I could think of to illustrte this would be 1 way sattelite users- static download and modem upload). I was going to try to mask it out, but currently have an issue to work out with baselayout before I can see if it works. I personally would like to see it gone by default, to promote the feeling of choice, but there may be other issues I have overloooked.
*** Bug 28363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ok, let me make sure I have this right. If both pppd and dhcpcd were removed from the base layout, then cable users would need to emerge dhcpcd and dialup users would need to emerge pppd for their internet connections to work. Is this correct?
You are exactly correct. In fact, in the new profiles layout (which we're getting ready to roll out soon for x86 and alpha and sparc at least), you'll see that there is no network stuff in there. the *new* profiles are in default-linux. The doc describing the new profiles is: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/cascading-profiles.xml
cascading profiles handle this
