Andrei POPESCU wrote: > As far as I can tell network manager is *not* using systemd-networkd in > the background (it doesn't depend on systemd).
No, it doesn't but both of them use dbus and obviously can talk to each other there. So the advantage is when systemd does something network manager can react and vice versa. but I do not have systemd-networkd or -resolved installed $ dpkg -l | grep systemd ii libpam-systemd:amd64 241-7~deb10u3 amd64 system and service manager - PAM module ii libsystemd0:amd64 241-7~deb10u3 amd64 systemd utility library ii systemd 241-7~deb10u3 amd64 system and service manager ii systemd-sysv:i386 241-7~deb10u3 i386 system and service manager - SysV links I was going to figure out why systemd-sysv:i386 is selected over systemd-sysv:amd64, but couldn't allocate time and motivation so far. And BTW I can not find anything like networkd $ apt-cache search systemd | grep network networkd-dispatcher - Dispatcher service for systemd-networkd connection status changes or resolved $ apt-cache search systemd | grep resolv openvpn-systemd-resolved - integrates OpenVPN with systemd-resolved resolvconf-admin - setuid helper program for setting up the local DNS libnss-mymachines - nss module to resolve hostnames for local container instances libnss-resolve - nss module to resolve names via systemd-resolved I have no idea what people are complaining of here. Shouldn't I stay at home, I would not even read or write this ... pure coincidence.