On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 20:04, Olivier Blin <mageia@blino.org> wrote:

Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni@dodonov.net> writes:

> 2011/7/14 JA Magallón <jamagallon@ono.com>
>
>> As a side note, this reminds me of the mix of ifplugd and networkmanager.
>> This was a point I wanted to throw in MGA2 specs: migrate completely to
>> networkmanager and ditch net_applet and traditional network scripts.
>> NetworkManger is the only sane way where I can have 5 wifi setups and
>> system chooses the good one automagically, and connects on boot.
>> Do you think this is worth a separate thread, or there is no point in
>> discussion ?
>
> I am all up for networkmanager since 2009, but let's hear Blino's opinion
> :).

We can probably keep some compatibility (like the sysvinit/systemd
duality).

This is how they work now, except that in mageia networkmanager uses keyfile plugin instead of networkmanager-mdv (which is a bit outdated at the moment) so the network configuration is different among them.