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

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:37:28PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> The suggestion is, to change the NetworkManager.conf to
> drop ifupdown from the default config.
> 
> The ifupdown package in turn would ship a config snippet
> like say /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/ifupdown.conf which contains
> 
> [main]
> plugins=ifupdown
> 
> There is also this bit in NetworkManager.conf, which is ifupdown plugin
> specific
> 
> [ifupdown]
> managed=false
> 
> I'm not sure whether this should be moved to such a ifupdown.conf file.
> This is a setting users might actually change, so should be in /etc/

It doesn't need to be; users can override that setting by creating a
file in /etc, containing:

[main]
plugins-=ifupdown

> ifupdown could ship the file as /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ifupdown.conf
> This would have the downside, that the ifupdown plugin would still be
> active if the ifupdown package is removed, but not purged.

Another good reason to ship it in /usr.