Question form a dummy: Is there any plan to merge dhcdbd and NetworkManager ?
Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:58 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >From http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/: >> >> "The most important pieces of NetworkManager are desktop-environment and >> distribution agnostic, functioning just as well in Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc. >> across distributions like Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo." >> >> So if these are the aims.. can I compile Netmanager on slackware without >> gnome ? (after long searches, on some gentoo-page, I discovered one has to >> 'configure --without-gnome') and still had to install quite a few other >> packages: hal, dbus, libnl, libgcrypt before to run into the required >> redhat-specific dhcbd... I gave up here, seems to be no end of dependencies. >> > > No, dhcdbd is _not_ redhat specific; anyone using or shipping > NetworkManager ships dhcdbd. That includes SUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, > Ubuntu, Debian, PLD, etc. > > >> Maybe it would be VERY helpful if more specific >> installation/configuring-info is given in the README file; i.e. required >> packages; specific configuration options to bypass above problems etc??? >> Or maybe you sould state that the application is only for that restricted >> set of 5 (Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo) distributions ... >> > > You're probably correct. > > >> If anyone can give me some hint how to proceed, that would be very >> appreciated.. >> > > Installing dchdbd is likely the last piece you'd need. Note that you > still need some user session applet or program to store and feed NM the > config information. There are currently two of those; the Gnome applet, > and the KDE applet. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
