Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:19:26 +1300 Peter peter@pajamian.dhs.org wrote:
Right, but core should be just the bare minimum. NetworkManager is certainly not required to configure your network, in fact el7 runs just fine without it. Just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts, etc, and you're good to go.
By the same logic you could argue that a text editor is not required for a bare minimum --- namely, you can always use cat and echo from the command line to "edit" the config files.
The point of the text editor in a minimal installation is to make life easier for a sysadmin. The point of NetworkManager is the same --- it is included so that you don't have to "just set your ifcfg-eth0 scripts".
I disagree. NetworkManager is fine... on a laptop, where you're going to be moving it from network to network. For a wired network - that is, for any server (remember the "Enterprise" part of the name?) - it's utterly unnecessary. And it wall worked fine before NM. And NM has caused problems on occasion, before we just turned the thing *off*.
mark