On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:40:37 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:31:14PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > We should also think hard about switching to a new default since > > currently many other major distributions are moving to NetworkManager > > and/or systemd-networkd (which nowadays is usable, works well for > > simpler use cases and will be installed on every Debian system anyway). > > For the latter, "installable only with a certain init implementation, and > not portable to any kernel but Linux" doesn't say "every Debian system" to > me.
For the record, networkd does *not* depend on systemd as pid 1, it happily works even in our initramfs without any (real) init. However, it *is* Linux specific as it uses/offers Linux specific network device types and uses Linux API like epoll(). Martin P.S. Sorry if I broke the thread, hand-crafted In-Reply-To:. Please CC: me, I'm not on the list. -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)