Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 23:07 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: >> > Le jeudi 31 mars 2011 à 09:25 +0200, Vincent Danjean a écrit : >> >> Martin F. Krafft started to implement a replacement of ifupdown that >> >> is better designed. But, due to lack of manpower I think, this project >> >> did not finish. See this archives of netconf-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> >> for more info. >> > >> > I wonder what amount of features we are missing for network-manager to >> > do the job; instead of rewriting a daemon from scratch, >> >> A daemon will never be able to replace ifupdown. > > ifupdown will never work correctly.
Point taken. Sorry about the noise. udevd has demonstrated that it is possible for a daemon to manage and police all devices in a system, while still keeping the kernel as "master of state". You can actually restart udevd without having all you disk devices removed and readded. Of course. So a daemon could do the job. NM, however, can not. I believe the problems with NM is best described by it's current list of bugs, and in particular by the maintainer responses to bugs like #415196. NM can probably be used for really simple desktop setups, but it is not suitable for any non-desktop setup or any non-trivial networking. Bjørn -- 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/87ei5hgj0s....@nemi.mork.no