[CentOS] NetworkManager

Fri Aug 22 22:18:22 UTC 2014
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

On 22/08/14 06:13 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> John R. Dennison wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
> And most of us *still* don't like it....
>
>          mark

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