also sprach Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> [2011.04.02.2229 +0200]: > I wonder what amount of features we are missing for network-manager to > do the job; instead of rewriting a daemon from scratch, we might as well > use one that was designed mostly for the same purpose. It’s > event-driven, it’s extensible, and its features list is already > impressive. Although it has some bugs remaining to fix, this would also > be the case of the new implementation.
It was originally designed as a graphical tool, which is like taking a wrong turn in square one. It has come a long way since then, but last I checked, for instance, it was not possible to hook up two network cards with DHCP. Anyway, netconf is nowhere near and noone seems interested enough to touch it, so… But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional replacement, I would question Debian's capacity to make technically excellent decisions and wonder, how much we have been dragged along by "user-friendly distros" and slid off the track. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- aristoteles
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