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