On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:32:42 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik(a)pobox.com> 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.
It's still needed for folks who have a bridging setup.
Hopefully soon NM will handle that case, but AFAIK it does not yet.
kevin