On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 15:15:36 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > This was back in the day when removing it took half the system with > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > ... and Gene was using Ubuntu??? ;-) > > > > > > > > I have never, over many years, had any trouble removing N-M, which for > > > > years > > > > I did automatically at installation time. > > > > > > On the whole I would never argue about what a user chose to have on his > > > or her machine for networking. My own preference is for ifupdown or > > > connman, However, the many thousands of happy users of N-M are highly > > > likely to ignore advice to remove it based on some dim recollection from > > > ten years ago. > > > > Hm. I didn't take any of the mails in this thread as advising any of > > the "many thousands of happy users of N-M" to remove anything. > > > > Whatever floats your boat. > > This is not a quote from a private mail: > > > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, nuke > > that puppy with extreme prejudice.
And, tomas, don't overlook potential factoids such as these: "Now this of course isn't going to work if you are carrying a lappy and expecting to tap the wifi at any Starbucks you pull into. Then you are truly at the mercy of network-mangler, which might work but usually doesn't." and "I have indeed used wicd, 3 or 4 times, []. But the last time I tried it on a ubu 10-04 lts install, it had apparently been re-written, and totally emasculated." Cheers, David.