On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:37:28PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > The suggestion is, to change the NetworkManager.conf to > drop ifupdown from the default config. > > The ifupdown package in turn would ship a config snippet > like say /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/ifupdown.conf which contains > > [main] > plugins=ifupdown > > There is also this bit in NetworkManager.conf, which is ifupdown plugin > specific > > [ifupdown] > managed=false > > I'm not sure whether this should be moved to such a ifupdown.conf file. > This is a setting users might actually change, so should be in /etc/
It doesn't need to be; users can override that setting by creating a file in /etc, containing: [main] plugins-=ifupdown > ifupdown could ship the file as /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ifupdown.conf > This would have the downside, that the ifupdown plugin would still be > active if the ifupdown package is removed, but not purged. Another good reason to ship it in /usr.
