On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com> wrote:

I am very glad the debian guys got "all cranky" on this issue,
Temrinating network connections just  because a component need to
resytart is plain silly.

DBus is not the same as any other random software because it is explicitly designed to provide reliable communication *between* components, much like the kernel.  If you restart it at random times that reliability guarantee is destroyed.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-March/thread.html#00027