On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 11:15:45AM -0700, Daniel Patterson wrote:
> Using any Gnome daemon ties in gnome dependencies
Nope. NetworkManager is designed to be agnostic to any particular
environment. KDE uses it for it's backend as well. From my box:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache depends network-manager
network-manager
Depends: libc6
Depends: libdbus-1-3
Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2
Depends: libgcrypt11
Depends: libglib2.0-0
Depends: libgpg-error0
Depends: libhal1
Depends: libiw28
Depends: libnl1-pre6
Depends: libnm-util0
Depends: iproute
Depends: iputils-arping
Depends: dhcdbd
Depends: lsb-base
Depends: wpasupplicant
Depends: dbus
Depends: hal
Depends: ifupdown
|Recommends: network-manager-gnome
Recommends: <network-manager-kde>
knetworkmanager
I suppose you might take issue with glib, hal, or dbus, but have fun
with lots of things at that point...
> not...). if you had a frontend that could bring up network (dhclient or
> dhcpcd), or wireless (iwconfig, or wlanconfig), and ppp (pppd), I think
> you would have a pretty nice application... though I'm not sure why they
> should be integrated, just make three nice separate apps!
Because it's awesome to be lazy. I've temporary gone back to Gnome on
my laptop explicity because of NetworkManager support. I take my
laptop all over town and my network only ever needs to be configured
once. It remembers what networks work, and if I plug in the wired
ethernet, it doesn't worry about wireless.
I'm not sure why you think this is "more trouble than it's worth".
It's easy, non-intrusive, and works in all cases I've encountered at
work/home/coffee shop.
--
Ross Vandegrift
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37
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