Re: [PATCH] removal of libdhcp

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 07:48 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On May 21, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Elliot Peele wrote:
> > What about distros that don't use NetworkManager? Will there be a fall
> > back? If we are using NetworkManager with Anaconda will it still able
> > able to generate "classic" network configuration?
> 
> 
> Personally, I'd rather not allow users the option to create a classic  
> set of ifcfg-* files if we are doing NM by default.  As long as it's  
> an option, people will still use it, which means we'll still have to  
> support multiple ways of configuring network devices on the target  
> system.  If we're going NM for everything, it should be NM for  
> everything.

Generating ifcfg-* files is still sane with NetworkManager, though.  It
uses them for the system-settings backend

Jeremy