[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743138: Bug#743138: [Needs upstream 0.9.10 release] Please only enable ifupdown plugin when ifupdown installed

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Josh,

Am 30.03.2014 23:00, schrieb Josh Triplett:
> NetworkManager 0.9.10 upstream will add support for a .d configuration
> directory, and syntax to incrementally enable plugins
> (plugins+=pluginname).  This would allow a package like ifupdown to ship
> a configuration file enabling and configuring the ifupdown plugin, which
> could then otherwise remain disabled.

This is certainly an interesting idea, but there a few issues:
a/ the ifupdown plugin not only parses /etc/network/interface but e.g.
also provides the hostname information stored in /etc/hostname, which we
want even if ifupdown is not installed.
b/ what happens if you install ifupdown *after* network-manager?

Given that, I rather think if people want to disable the ifupdown
plugin, they should do that manually via
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, where they can also specify the
hostname.

So I'm inclined to tag the bug as wontfix.

Michael

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