On 2020-07-12 20:35:56 +0200 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > What is (unusual but) usable, however, is to *not* use Network > Manager for wifi, but use IWD+systemd or IWD standalone for wifi, > and use Network Manager to manage _other_ network components. > > In such unusual-but-real setup, wpa-supplicant would be dead > weight. Lightweight, arguably, but a daemon and therefore > additional risk of hair-pulling confusions: If wpa-supplicant > daemon is running, IWD fails to work. [...] > On Debian you can only remove the wpa-supplicant if you also > remove network-manager - which I find is an unnecessary tight > coupling. [...]
Worth considering is that it still may in fact not be *too* unusual to have systems with no wireless network interface at all. I have quite a few in my possession running current releases of Debian. Granted I've been eschewing NM on them in favor of ifupdown for simplicity, but I could foresee wanting to install it on them and having zero use for either wpa-supplicant or iwd. I've actually grown quite fond of nmcli, once NM mostly got over its (lengthy) rough patch. -- Jeremy Stanley
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