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dnsmasq package

  1. Bug #1531184
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1531184

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: [Bug 1531184] Re: [SRU] dnsmasq doesn't start on boot because its interface isn't up yet

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 04:57:59PM -0000, Benjamin Bach wrote:
> @Robie Basak
>
> > Will this delay boot for laptop users who are offline, for example?
>
> If someone has installed the dnsmasq package with the dnsmasq.service
> file, they already intend to run this as a network-dependent service?
> It's not part of a normal user's setup - I think they have dnsmasq-base,
> which doesn't include the service.

They already intend to run this as a service, yes. But why do you
qualify that as "network-dependent"? dnsmasq is still useful on a laptop
only occasionally connected to the Internet, is it not? What if a user
wants it inward-facing, for example for VMs?