On 22 August 2011 11:57, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > This is just a heads up to suggest that we officially adopt a policy of > moving to NetworkManager after systemd becomes our default (and likely > only) init system - i.e. likely for mga3. > > As you may know, GNOME is moving towards a systemd user session and > systemd itself is very much aligning itself to be the one true init > system on linux. > > I also have it on good authority that many of the features lacking in > NetworkManager (such as bridging configuration) will be available in the > not too distant future and many other more advanced networking features > such as fast-start DHCP, per-interface DNS, 4-8's DNS fallback and > several other nice features will ultimately be possible too. > > So with all this in mind, I think the writing is very much on the wall > with regards to the future integration of NetworkManager into the > desktop. I believe we will be able to concentrate our resources better > by going along with the rest of the world in this regard. I have > personally switched to it now (as I do not need advanced features of > draknetcenter et al) as a step towards this.
err... drakx-net's code is heavily used by other tools such as: - drakx-installer - mgaonline - ... So I think we still want to keep drakx-net
