On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:20:08 -0500 Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:06 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:02:14 -0500 > > Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Why is this discussion happening, exactly? What's the compelling > > > reason to move away from network-manager and adopt wicd? It seems > > > to me like that will just create a bigger delta at no benefit. > > > > The number of backported packages required for network-manager is > > getting silly. > > But as long as it's the default in Debian (which it is, to the best of > my recollection), doesn't adopting something else mean a bigger delta > in the long term? Presumably the backported packages will become No, because at a future point (eg, gNS 4,5,6) we can go back to n-m instead of wicd. > stable at some point, shrinking the delta, but wicd will never be > adopted as the default in Debian. The backported packages will be 'stable' when they enter debian stable - on the next release. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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