Hi Steve, On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 11:01 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 12:27:13PM +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > > So on desktop installations including NetworkManager, netplan will be > > configured to do nothing? Why install netplan at all on desktop systems > > then? > > > And if it does manage some interfaces, it is probably a regression to > > break GUI network management... > > As a longtime Ubuntu desktop power user, I can tell you concretely that I > made use of this because I absolutely 100% wanted NetworkManager to manage > the wifi interface on my laptop (correctly selecting networks from the list > of those available an autoconnecting, etc) and I also absolutely 100% did > NOT want NetworkManager managing my ethernet port and had it configured via > netplan instead.
And you think that using two different network managers for different interfaces, here NetworkManager and netplan using either NetworkManger or systemd-networkd, on desktop systems is such a common configuration that we should install netplan by default to enable this? I would expect this to be a quite uncommon scenario, not something that must be covered by the selection of packages included in the default install. Ansgar
