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

Tue Aug 23 10:30:52 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Michael scherer at 22/08/11 13:14 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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. 
+
+As I said in my initial email, but was not clear. All of these things
+will be supported in a much nicer way in the near future.
+
+But yes, Fedora will switch and we can follow, but it would be nice to
+be at the fore front here if possible.
+
+Col
+
+
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