Gnome's control-center now requires NetworkManager-wifi. But it's only a soft requirement, no shared libs involved.
To keep your workstation NM-free, you want to install a dummy package that provides NetworkManager-wifi but actually contains nothing, ideally before updating to 7.5. Here's a script to create such a dummy: https://github.com/larsks/fakeprovide
If you do this, control-center shows a sad face and some text (Oops, blah, blah, ...) in the WiFi tab. Just the same you always got in the network tab without NM. That's all.
-M.
On 15 May 2018 at 16:55, Michael Lampe lampe@gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
Gnome's control-center now requires NetworkManager-wifi. But it's only a soft requirement, no shared libs involved.
To keep your workstation NM-free, you want to install a dummy package that provides NetworkManager-wifi but actually contains nothing, ideally before updating to 7.5. Here's a script to create such a dummy: https://github.com/larsks/fakeprovide
If you do this, control-center shows a sad face and some text (Oops, blah, blah, ...) in the WiFi tab. Just the same you always got in the network tab without NM. That's all.
Note that the 'network' service is considered legacy and gets just basic fixes.
It's not been recommended to disable NetworkManager for years at this point.
Unless you have a really tricky setup with openvswitch or something like that it's a bad idea to disable NetworkManager at this point in time.
As yourself why you are doing it, and what you are really hoping to gain.
Have a read of this to get a better grasp on NM: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/18
Le 16/05/2018 à 13:55, James Hogarth a écrit :
Unless you have a really tricky setup with openvswitch or something like that it's a bad idea to disable NetworkManager at this point in time.
As yourself why you are doing it, and what you are really hoping to gain.
I've been a Slackware user for years before definitely moving to CentOS in April 2017. Those Slackware years have conveyed a deep sense of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle. I just remove stuff I have no use for, for a variety of reasons.
For example, I usually remove firewalld on a fresh installation, since I prefer a good old iptables script.
But then, I'll just go with the flow and adapt, and if Red Hat decides I have to use NetworkManager to configure a DHCP desktop client, so be it.
Niki
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