[Merge] lp:~vorlon/ubuntu-seeds/platform.bionic-dhcp-switch into lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/platform.bionic

[Scott Moser]

Review: Approve

I'm not extremely happy with cloud-init's dependency on isc-dhcp but it gives us a dhcp client that we can use in a programmatic and reliable way. Ultimately I expect to have our own dhcp implementation and drop our dependency on isc-dhcp-client.

Almost any package or software running on 18.04 that uses a dhcp client is going to be using isc-dhcp-client.  Its just realistically to early to expect use of systemd-networkd compared the defacto client on almost all distros for the better part of the last decade.

isc-dhcp-client has to stay in main because there are at least 2 use cases (cloud-init and ipv6 initramfs) that depend on it.  So we haven't changed any support requirements.

Because we'll still have it in main for users or software to use, I have no objection to it.

The one win is that 'ubuntu-minimal' does not have isc-dhcp-client or its dependencies.

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