On ma, 2006-05-29 at 21:16 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > I'm not an NM dev, but it seems reasonable to me. I've done a bit of > work getting NM to work on my LFS box, and most of my patches consist of > duplicating the contents of the Redhat backend and changing a few things > to suit the different /etc layout. It'd be a lot easier to maintain if I > could simply override a few functions in the Redhat one. I started working on it yesterday, got several gobject based files (interface, generic backend and gentoo backend) written, although not completely (only 3 of the backend functions as of now, but adding more is easy), and started modifying the NM core to use this new system. I submitted a branch request to the NM maintainers, awaiting approval. > > Of course, another school of thought says it's ridiculous having half a > dozen different backends in the first place and that things would be a > lot easier if distros could be a bit more consistent. But that's just > crazy talk... :) Everyone's allowed to dream once in a while ;-). Whilst the idea is good, I dont think it'll happen soon: every distro thinks their system is best suited for their userbase I guess? > > Simon. Ikke http://www.eikke.com
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