System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 24 18:27:25 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Scott Tsai (scottt.tw at gmail.com) said: 
>> 3. Only remove system-config-network when Fedora no longer ships the old 
>> network configuration scripts like /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup 
>> and have NetworkManager totally take over.
> 
> NetworkManager's connection editor will (soon) be able to
> write to those files. Even if NM isn't in use, if it's
> writing the same data, to the same files, while being
> actually maintained more... I don't see why s-c-network
> would stay around.

Well, I regret having to say so, but unless NetworkManager has seen 
_very_ substantial improvements since FC10, I feel your rationale is 
wishful thinking.

Actually, I feel s-c-network should be revived and NetworkManager be 
made strictly optional.





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