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Re: install/51214: Sysinst should add dhcpcd to rc.conf with -b flag.



On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 08:20:00PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> dhcpcd in this form will block boot, wasting time for no reason.

I find this assertion to be quite strong and not necessarily correct.
For a server, one of the first non-trivial things after boot is often
ntpdate. It's about the only time when it can be done safely. Defaulting
to backgrounding the network would effectively break that.

Joerg


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