Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:

On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote:

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So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager.

I somewhat understand its usefulness, especially for wlan / desktops, and its not like it really bothers me.. That being said, it seems to me with my naive linux understanding that it kinda goes against the definition of a "minimal" installation.

Does anyone know why this decision was made / a good idea?

network manager is used by default to manage all sorts of connections now, including ethernet with DHCP.

More important with regards to the minimal install set it matches what Red Hat is doing.

John