[Bug 246322] Re: nis package must provide DHCP client scripts

[Mark Brown]

It's not quite that simple - people use NIS on computers which move
between networks, such as laptops, and run multiple NIS domains on the
same network (which means that any DHCP configuration will only apply to
some systems). This makes it difficult to tell if the configuration on
the network applies to the current system.

Like I say, enabling DHCP support on systems where it was not previously
enabled is not going to happen: the systems already work so any risk of
breaking them is unacceptable, which means that this can't be enabled
for upgrades. As I have said, it may be OK to default this on for new
installs but never for old installs.

Something which overwrites the configuration unconditionally wouldn't be
good enough - this would prevent use of any manual configuration and
would doubtless lead to users having their configuration destroyed.

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nis package must provide DHCP client scripts
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