On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 07:32:42 pm Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > >> Having to support multiple boot paths for the system, making everyone > >> who gets odd bugs filed against kernel, dracut, plymouth, etc. triage > >> them isn't exactly an 'easy fix' - it *adds* complication to both > >> paths. > > > > Right. In fact, I think we're supporting way too many deprecated > > alternatives for way too long, e.g. when will the old legacy "network" > > service which has been deprecated for ages finally be gone? > > > > Of course it makes sense to keep deprecated stuff around when it's needed > > to make things work, e.g. HAL is still needed for KDE right now (but > > that might already be resolved by F15 since work on new u* Solid > > backends is going strong upstream, also thanks to Fedora developers from > > Red Hat Czech), but I don't see anything requiring e.g. the old > > "network" to stay around. > > Isn't "network" needed for people who don't run NetworkManager? > > For the longest time, NM only worked predictably for logged-in users, > which made "network" service a requirement for servers with static IPs > and such. > > Jeff There are still use cases that NetworkManager doesnt handle. RHEL 6 still defaults to network on servers not sure about workstation installs.
there is likely going to be a need for it for some time yet Dennis
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