On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:26:13 -0400, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > [1 <multipart/signed (7bit)>] > [1.1 Re: [Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-08-10] increasing security in Parabola, > servers <multipart/mixed (7bit)>] > [1.1.1 <text/plain; windows-1252 (quoted-printable)>] > On 08/02/2016 08:44 PM, Luke Shumaker wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:43:28 -0400, > > hellekin wrote: > >> NetworkManager sounds like useless bloatware in that context. > > > > NetworkManager is useless bloatware in any context. > > NetworkManager is easy to use and sufficiently versatile for > laptops/tablets when one wants to quickly change network settings with a > GUI (e.g. for wireless, internet sharing, …). For a server I don’t think > it really matters; all of them work and are easy to set up.
I have a netctl "GUI"[1]. The only time I think NetworkManager could provide anything of value over it is the GUI for joining an WPA-EAP network; since netctl's `wifi-menu` doesn't support them. And then, when I've reluctantly installed NetworkManager to set up these, I just port the NetworkManager config over to netctl. Why doing this is worth it over just using NetworkManager: - You won't open your laptop and find the screen filled with (litterally) 200 messages informing you that it failed to connect to whatever wifi network. - It won't segfault if gnome-keyring isn't installed. - You'll never get weird error messages about "Error -14" that when you track them down, you find the comment "// XXX: TODO: we should probably have proper error handling" - When your wifi card craps out and you replace it, you won't find that all of your saved wifi networks mysteriously don't work anymore. - When you get a new laptop and copy over the configuration, you won't find that all of your saved wifi networks mysteriously don't work anymore. [1]: https://lukeshu.com/git/dotfiles/tree/.config/wmii-hg/rbar_wifi -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
