On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:03:55AM +1300, Peter wrote:
On 12/12/2013 11:05 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
The core group includes NetworkManager and postfix, neither should be core packages and should be excluded from a core or minimal install.
Fedora, and RedHat, apparently feel that NetworkManager is the way to go. As I never use it, I'm not sure if they ever fixed the fact that it can't handle bridges. To me (and I admit I'm an aging grouch), it's the sort of thing that RH has a bad habit of doing, taking things that aren't necessarily bad for something like Fedora, aimed at a single user laptop, and putting it into their system which is often used as a server.
(One can argue about Fedora's use case, but judging from their forums, and the various changes that have come over the years, I feel that most of its developers are thinking of a single user laptop.)
Somewhere in the release notes, it states that system-config-network is being removed in favor of some NetworkManager cli tool.