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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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<I>Mon Aug 22 14:32:31 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 22 August 2011 11:57, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
><i> This is just a heads up to suggest that we officially adopt a policy of
</I>><i> moving to NetworkManager after systemd becomes our default (and likely
</I>><i> only) init system - i.e. likely for mga3.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As you may know, GNOME is moving towards a systemd user session and
</I>><i> systemd itself is very much aligning itself to be the one true init
</I>><i> system on linux.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I also have it on good authority that many of the features lacking in
</I>><i> NetworkManager (such as bridging configuration) will be available in the
</I>><i> not too distant future and many other more advanced networking features
</I>><i> such as fast-start DHCP, per-interface DNS, 4-8's DNS fallback and
</I>><i> several other nice features will ultimately be possible too.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So with all this in mind, I think the writing is very much on the wall
</I>><i> with regards to the future integration of NetworkManager into the
</I>><i> desktop. I believe we will be able to concentrate our resources better
</I>><i> by going along with the rest of the world in this regard. I have
</I>><i> personally switched to it now (as I do not need advanced features of
</I>><i> draknetcenter et al) as a step towards this.
</I>
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
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