New DHCP client in development..

[John]

Derek Broughton wrote:

>>>>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Because hotplug is obsolete.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.
> 
> 
> Well, I think it does pretty much answer it.  The problem is that there _is_
> no one true way, and Linuxers really don't like trying to define a one true
> way (look at how well the Linux Standard Base is doing).
> 
> udev _does_ handle configuring the modules - which is all hotplug was doing. 
> You could make udev/hal do more, but we've already got tools that do the
> job.  afaict, what you're asking for is done by ifplugd.

Alright then, if ifplugd does the job, why do we need yet another dhcp 
client? Can't the vendors just make the existing tools do the job properly?