New DHCP client in development..

[John]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> John wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would have thought writing a satisfactory replacement for dhcpcd and
>>dhclient an nunnecessarily difficult undertaking.
> 
> ... 
> 
>>Why isn't configuring hotplug properly the "one true Linux way?"
> 
> 
> Because hotplug is obsolete.  Dapper doesn't have it.  Now we use udev and
> hal.
It doesn't really answer the question, does it? Why don't udev & hal do 
it then?

Or hotplug in those systems still using it.