On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 14:31 -0400, Tambet Ingo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:53, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > In general uou'll want to *configure* connections using your distro's normal > > network configuration system (which NetworkManager should pick up > > automatically) > > In general, I think it's a bad suggestion. The distro networking tools > are (usually?) for configuring one static configuration per device > which does not really match well with NetworkManager. For example, > using distro tools, I create a connection for SSID "mywlan". It > becomes one of many connection "profiles" in NetworkManager and you'd > be very surprised to see NM connected to another network instead. > Another example, you configure a device and use "don't connect > automatically, let user activate it manually". Again, it becomes one > of available configurations for the device, and NM will happily > activate the device automatically with another connection data, > seemingly ignoring that it was told to not connect automatically. > > In short, as long as there's more than one connection profile > available, it's not guaranteed that the distro configuration is used. > Because of that, (and countless bugs from confused users) I've > disabled support of using distro network configuration for > NetworkManager for openSUSE packages (and received only a few > complaints, so people seem to be happier now). > > If we really care about CLI only NetworkManager, we'll need to write a > nm-connection-editor type of CLI thing too. Or if we want to support > distro tools, make it harder (impossible?) to use more than one > connection profile per device.
I was generally moving towards just an applet-like CLI client, and since people that want to use a CLI for that sort of stuff will obviously be familiar with CLI-based configuration, they will certainly be expected to know how to configure either keyfiles or their distro config files. I don't think we really need a CLI nm-connection-editor at all. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
