On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:41:31PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am 30.01.2013 20:11, schrieb Dave Reisner: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 03:57:08PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > >> On 01/30/2013 03:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > For the next release I suggest we seriously consider using Network > >> > Manager > >> > on the instal medium. nmcli seems to cover most relevant use cases now. > >> > >> I was thinking about this when systemd replaced initscripts. > >> > >> +1 for me. > > Can we talk about pruning out some of the weight from the ISO before we > > add another 20MB via NM and dependencies? We'd need to add, roughly: > > > > dbus-glib > > glib-networking > > gsettings-desktop-schemas > > libsoup > > nspr > > nss > > polkit > > sqlite > > networkmanager > > > > Not really a fan of network manager, but I don't really deal with the > > headaches that come with wifi so often. Is nmcli more than just a config > > file parser these days? > > NetworkManager would work quite well for us. The deps look a little > insane though. I don't know why it would need libsoup and Gnome stuff.
If adding NM is the deemed The Right Thing To Do™ then fine, but I'd like to make sure that it's actually valuable. Last I looked, using nmcli meant handwriting config files which had no documented syntax. > I would say we keep things as-is for at least the February ISO image. Very much agreed. d
