On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de> wrote:
On Thu, 09.10.14 18:59, Elad Alfassa (elad@fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de>
> wrote:
>
> > > - no integration with NetworkManager, unaware of NTP servers from
> > >   DHCP
> >
> > Well it is not hooked up with NM but it *is* hooked up with networkd
> > via its native API, and hence even picks up manually configured
> > per-connection NTP servers.
>
> I really want to see networkd in Fedora by default. What are the
> plans/timeframe for that? How does it play together with NM?

networkd doesn't do WLAN really (well, you can run it together with
wpa_supplicant, and configure both individually, but that's not
particularly nice. networkd currently also lacks a bus interface
(since it runs in early boot + initrd, where dbus-daemon is not
available currently), and that stalls on kdbus.

networkd as it is right now is great for servers, or the initrd, to
run inside containers or for a lot of the embedded usecases. It's not
suitable for the desktop usecase.

Lennart

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Okay, got it.
Speaking of the far future, will networkd ever be suitable for desktop usecases? Will NM interface with it in some way to provide the missing functionality?
If networkd is not good (yet?) for desktop, and timesyncd needs it for a functionality that is important for many people, then I guess timesyncd will need to learn to work with NetworkManager if you want to have it in Workstation (or convince people that DHCP-provided NTP servers are not something they want to support).

For the F21 timeframe I think it would be useful to patch timedatectl to use chrony. Do you agree?

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