Hello! Recently I have received news about excluding busybox from @system "2021-09-24-busybox-removal-from-system-set". So I going to make a test. After removing busybox my test virtual machine does not boot properly. It uses DHCP for network configuration and now it complaints: * Bringing up interface eth0 * Caching network module dependencies * config_eth0 not specified; defaulting to DHCP * dhcp ... * nothing provides `dhcp' So it seems I have removed the only DHCP client (udhcpc) in the system. I have a lot of hosts running Gentoo with network configured by DHCP. Do I need to manually add busybox to @world on all those hosts? I think @system should provide DHCP client by default. Could Gentoo developers provide alternative DHCP client in @system? Thanks in advance. Reproducible: Always
I don't think adding a dhcp client to @system makes sense. I would suggest adding net-misc/dhcp or net-misc/dhcpcd to your @world.
The handbook already mentions installing a DHCP client as an installation step. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Tools#Installing_a_DHCP_client
Okay, if this is a new "Gentoo way", then please close this bug ticket. I will try dhcpcd. Thanks for your quick answer! P.S. I had read Gentoo Handbook a decade ago... =)
the only reason busybox was ever in @system was as our rescue shell (to replace sash). it was never in there for anything else (like a dhcp client fallback). so removing it from @system means we aren't providing a rescue shell, and you can argue that point, but any other behavior was not guaranteed. if you want a dhcp client, you need to select one.
