On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:00:01AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:52:33AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > On 08:18 Mon 04 Apr , Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > RH> Hi, > > > RH> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > >> Stupid scheme (intended for stupid users) should be based on ifupdown > > >> but shouldn't replace it. > > > RH> Please refrain from calling people "stupid users" just because they use > > a > > RH> software that you don't like. > > > There was a way "User can do anything", the way was replaced by the way > > "User can do something in list". Obviously that this action has been > > done for stupid users. > > Yes, a user can do anything with ifconfig if his time has no value. I am > happily using network manager on my laptop, because unlike ifconfig it's > easy to configure for use on new wireless networks. > > I am not happy that network manager bypasses ifconfig to do this; [...]
I am. NM uses the correct interface, i.e. netlink. ifconfig is a BSD legacy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404103130.gf2...@decadent.org.uk