[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#685146: Bug#685146: wicd-daemon packages dependencies

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Axel Beckert wrote on 01/24/17 13:43:
> Hi,
> 
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> Isn't the /sbin/dhcpcd symlink a must since dhcpd5 claims to provide dhcp-client?
> 
> No. As far as I know there's no real common commandline interface
> defined for DHCP clients:
> 
> dhcpcd5: /sbin/dhcpcd5
> isc-dhcp-client: /sbin/dhclient
> pump: /sbin/pump
> udhcpc: /sbin/udhcpc
> 
> At least wicd handles them all separately and differently.
> 
> Probably the only thing their commandline interface has in common is
> that if there's a single parameter, it should be the interface name.
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
> 

Oh, I never realized that. Then, /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown also have to deal
with the different dhcp variants.

That's (ifup/ifdown) what I've used so far for wireless networking, and
sometimes wpagui with a small configuration file set-up by hand.

Regards,
Jörg-Volker.