On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMO, we'll end up sooner or later using NM on X-less boxes by default
It might be the case eventually, but we're not there yet. > NM on Fedora can now handle bonding and bridging by reading > "/etc/sysconfig/netwok-scripts/ifcfg-*" files. > > I was curious about whether NM could do the same by reading > "/etc/network/interfaces" so I've just tried to install NM in an > X-less Quantal VM. Not by reading /e/n/i; but bonding and bridging support was added in NetworkManager 0.9.4.0. There is currently no way to configure it besides the rather opaque files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. This will be fixed eventually, but you'll still see the configuration methods come up in nm-applet first, before it's added to the command-line configuration tool or to the /e/n/i parser (and parsing that is difficult, if not dangerous anyway). > > "apt-get install network-manager" results in: > [...] > and > > "apt-get install network-manager -o APT::Install-Recommends=false" results in: > [...] > So, even an installation of NM without its "Recommends" (which isn't > something that I like to do or, AFAIK, something that's recommended) > results in the installation of packages that are only needed by a DE, > like dconf-gsettings-backend, dconf-service, glib-networking, > glib-networking-common, glib-networking-services, > gsettings-desktop-schemas. > [...] > Could NM's "Depends" and "Recommends" be pared down for an X-less > use-case? Thanks. "We'll burn that bridge when we get there." :) Seriously though; I agree that some of these requirements are unfortunate, especially with all this coming from glib-networking (which I'll look to make sure is really required). Any help you can provide to reducing these requirements and making NetworkManager suitable on X-less systems is definitely welcome. I recommend you come hang around on #nm on Freenode if it's the case; this is where the upstream NetworkManager development gets done. Regards, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@ubuntu.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
