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Feature changed by: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi)
Feature #309160, revision 6
  Title: checkbox to enable IPX protocol
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
  Priority
      Requester: Desirable
   
  Info Provider:  (Novell)
  Requested by: Michal Zugec (mzugec)
  Developer:  (Novell)
   
Description:
  Please along the "Enable IPv6" checkbox add another checkbox to enable
  IPX.
  See bugzilla enhancement:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586119
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) (2010-03-10 12:44:36) 
  The IPX protocol is enabled on interface eth0, for example, by the
  following command:
  ipx_interface add eth0 EtherII
  This should be binded to the checkbox.
   
  #2: Michal Zugec (mzugec) (2010-03-10 13:56:54) 
  This should be implemented in sysconfig first. Marius, what's your
  comment?
   
  #3: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-03-10 15:13:33) 
  My question here is whether IPX is popular enough that it makes sense
  to enable it in the GUI.
   
+ #4: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2010-03-10 21:02:38) (reply to
+ #3)
+ I agree with you. IPX exposes us to charges of "Novellization" by people
+ with nothing better to do (politics) and the simple fact is that IPv6 I
+ can see as handy (for some) but PIX is an even smaller audience... we
+ did simplify the installer to make things simpler on the
+ user  (usability), adding options back in(especially like this one) is
+ not the way to go.
+ So, given the usability factor and the political vibe this feature
+ would give, I am inclined to reject. an IPX user is fully qualified to
+ turn this on post-install.
+ Any comments on this analysis before i (R) ?
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/309160