For now part of this is "fixed" as netplan only generates UUIDs for the
interfaces that really need them: only for NM, and only for VLAN
devices.
nplan (0.32) bionic; urgency=medium
* src/nm.c: better handle the UUID generation; the order of iterating
through interaces may affect things her
The underlying justification here is that currently, we are wasting
(possibly scarce) entropy at each boot to generate a UUID whose global
uniqueness provides no particular value to us because it doesn't persist
across reboots (therefore you can't usefully refer to it from elsewhere
anyway).
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