On 12/03/2013 07:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-12-03 22:44 (GMT-0200) Ignacio Areta composed:
So, does someone have any plans to change this?
I hope no default change any time before NM does more maturing. Ifup is KISS, much better for the many systems using a single more secure wired connection and needing 0 "management", especially by a complicated, larger and buggy manager.
There is a lot to be said for KISS. After struggling through transitions from ifup, to network manager, to netctl with other distros, the bottom line is they provide little, if any, benefit over ifup for 99% of the userbase. Generally it is only a very vocal minority of users that push moving to the latest "gee-whiz" way of doing x,y or z. No distro should make a knee-jerk change in core packages just to satisfy the wants of a few. There is nothing wrong with moving to new ways of doing things as long as the benefits to the distribution are clearly defined, there are real benefits to a majority of the installed users, and the impact of the change on users doesn't create incompatibilities/inconsistencies between the current supported releases. older software != bad software I guess the question posed is "what is the current push withing openSuSE, if any, to change the software for managing network interfaces?" Has anyone done any comparison between the competing schemes to determine which provides the greatest capability, flexibility and ease of use for managing both wired and wireless interfaces? One that hopefully does not change the interface names from ethx to enpXs1X forcing updates to everything that relies on the ethX conventions. I haven't, but it would be interesting to see just what is out there and whether any of the newer schemes have matured to the point of being a sane replacement to how we do things now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org