On  2013-03-28[1],  I ditched netcfg. Yesterday, netcfg officially got
  replaced by netctl[2] Well.

  I realized, though, that scripts are not the way to go. I'm forced  to
  use systemd anyway, so I might as well use unit files. Like the one at
  [3].  It's a little bit better  because  it  "binds"  to  the  network
  interface.  As  a  result,  the  unit  file  is  not  being run if the
  interface is not yet present -- and the  service  is  stopped  if  the
  interface goes away. With USB WiFi sticks, this is sort of relevant.

  Speaking of systemd... I gave in. Arch Linux simply offers me the best
  operating system. So, I "accept" systemd. It's not nice,  it's  overly
  complex  and  what  not.  But at the end of the day, there's only Arch
  Linux and OpenBSD. And I  still  don't  get  some  things  to  run  on
  OpenBSD.

  Maybe I should try harder.

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  1. gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twitpher/2013-03/2013-03-28.txt

  2. https://www.archlinux.org/news/netctl-is-now-in-core/

  3. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network#Using_a_static_IP_address