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

Tue Aug 23 15:34:19 CEST 2011

On 23 August 2011 10:55, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> err... drakx-net's code is heavily used by other tools such as:
+>> - drakx-installer
+>> - mgaonline
+>> - ...
+>>
+>> So I think we still want to keep drakx-net
+>
+> Perhaps, but then a more interesting question is "what bits of drakx-net
+> are used in mgaonline and drax-installer?" Just stating that they are
+> used there as a reason to keep it isn't really a good argument IMO.
+
+drakx-installer uses most of interesting bits of drakx-net (ake network
+detection & set up, ...)
+
+> Asbestos is used in fire retardant wall insulation, but it's not a good
+> argument to keep it considering the world has moved on and we now know
+> the dangers of working with that material.
+
+OK, give me the NM patches for the installer :-)
+Seriously, without trolling, we just cannot drop drakx-net until we got
+something else for the installer.
+Dunno what does anaconda these days btw?
+
+> So what does mgaonline need to work with drakx-net? Does it just need to
+> know if you are online or not? If so why not use NM's dbus service to do
+> that? It could eventually know whether you are on a paid/metered
+> connection (this is not yet supported by NM but there has been some talk
+> about it) or a "free" connection - a fast vs. slow connection etc. It
+> could make intelligent, informed decisions, not just "is the user online
+> - no matter how crappily?"
+
+mgaonline has less needs, basically detecting network connectivity
+but those are shared with the installer, so even if the lower level
+part would change, there's no readon not to have a common perl
+layer hiding the low level bits instead of making both interfaces NM
+