On 2012-08-29 22:43, Olaf Kirch wrote:
Hi Adam,
On Thursday 30 August 2012 04:16:23 Adam Williamson wrote:
> *** Network Manager is just another daemon created for a task
> which historically often did not need any daemons. It's almost as
if
> the new generation of Unix hackers wants to redo everything -
> in x10 or x100 times bloated and more complex way than it was done
> before.
<snip>
> One, a modern network management framework should run as a
service.
> The
> kernel offers a plethora of notifications via rtnetlink, and
> increasingly
> expects user space to react to these (for instance in the IPv6
area).
> Running a network management daemon allows us to track the state,
> detect
> changes, and react to them appropriately.
There appears to be some cognitive dissonance in the document. It
seems
odd to criticize NetworkManager solely for being a bloated, complex
daemon, and then, having dismissed NM, in describing the ideal
next-generation network management framework, declare that it ought
to
be a bloated complex daemon...
That dissonance is explained easily. Only the second section you
quote was
written by me, the other is a comment from Denis Vlasenko, actually
:-)
Ah, I was wondering about the strange layout of the mail, but didn't
grok it was hum vs. you. Makes more sense now! Thanks.
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