[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Mon Aug 22 14:14:48 CEST 2011

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:44:01AM -0300, Balcaen John wrote:
+> Le Monday 22 August 2011 12:57:23 Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+> > On 22/08/2011 11:57, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> > > I also have it on good authority that many of the features lacking
+> > > in NetworkManager (such as bridging configuration) will be
+> > > available in the not too distant future and many other more
+> > > advanced networking features such as fast-start DHCP,
+> > > per-interface DNS, 4-8's DNS fallback and several other nice
+> > > features will ultimately be possible too.
+> > While I don't care about configuration wizards, I do about
+> > initscripts. How are you supposed to configure a server in some
+> > automated manner without plain-old configuration files ?
+> If i'm not wrong you can still drop plain text files in 
+> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
+
+Provided you want to do nothing fancy like bridge, vlan and 
+others stuff that are used by sysadmins. 
+
+And provided of course that you do not care about breaking upgrade
+path. 
+
+I would personnaly not move until Fedora at least did for some 
+releases. We are not here to experiment on our users, they are not
+guinea pigs. 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer 
+