gnome, the 800 pound gorilla of desktop systems. Pandemic memory prices have gone up and lighter memory systemsmay not be able to take a visit from our gorilla.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, john doe wrote: > On 12/31/2021 4:12 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > The network-manager package should be installed by default to ANY > > installation of Debian perhaps even along with the basic system prior to > > software selection - so that using the undocumented "!" software selection > > (it should be documented right in the installer itself to produce a working > > command line networking system! > > > > In headless, there is no need to use nmcli to configure the network, > 'systemd-network' '/etc/network/interfaces' are some possibilities. > > The utility is generaly pulled as an dependency. > > > But your saying that even with network-manager package installed, it has to > > be configured to run! Not very accessible. Installation should install the > > package and at least ask the user if he wants it started, or better yet, > > start it and have it ready for use with the commands given to disable or > > stop it. > > > > This is already the case, nmcli is an dependency of Gnnome/ for example. > For Mate, it makes less sense as you have other means to configure it. > > -- > John Doe > > >
