On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 13:13, Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> wrote: > > 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.
The advantage of doing that is that it's what Ubuntu does IIRC, so there will be extra pooling&sharing of resources to maintain those setups, and the road should already be paved for it. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
