On Mon, 2023-06-19 at 13:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Why does isc-dhcp-client have priority:important to begin with? > I don't think users care so much about a dhcp client but rather a > network configuration system and each network configuration system > has its own preferred dhcp implementation e.g NetworkManager no > longer uses isc-dhcp-client by default and systemd-networkd doesn't > use isc-dhcp-client either. > > So maybe simply demoting the priority of isc-dhcp-client to normal is > a better route. > ifupdown already recommends isc-dhcp-client and if ifupdown want's to > use dhcpcd in the future it could change this recommends.
The priority question isn't the important one. The real question is: What network configuration system should users end up with (by default)? I think this should be NetworkManager for desktop environments and I personally like systemd-networkd for other environments. In both cases these replace both ifupdown and isc-dhcp-client. I also think that installing both ifupdown and NetworkManager on desktop environments is worse than only NM. Ansgar
