On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 11:28 +0200, Joan Moreau wrote: > Question form a dummy: > Is there any plan to merge dhcdbd and NetworkManager ?
No, not really, there's no need to. They both do different things, have different scope. NetworkManager is a client of dhcdbd, and is not necessarily the only one. Dan > > > 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
