[CentOS] NetworkManager

[Steve Clark]

On 08/22/2014 07:42 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 22/08/14 07:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
>>> To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing
>>> after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right?
>> The point is to abstract an interface so you can make changes behind
>> it without breaking the things already built around it.  You can
>> always add things without breaking anything that already worked for
>> your community of users.  If you didn't care about that yourself,
>> you'd be recompiling a  gentoo weekly instead of being here.
> To echo John, this is a major release. It's where, when needed, things
> can change and break backwards compatibility. If a change like this
> happened as a y-stream release, sure, I'll grab my pitch fork along with
> you.
>
> It's not realistic to expect backwards compatibility to last forever.
> The sysv init stuff had a good long run, but it was time to change. Now,
> you're welcome to disagree with me (and the archives are littered
> already with this argument), but in the end, it changed. A major version
> was the right place to do it, and now it is done.
>
> So this brings me back to my original point... Unless you plan to wage a
> war against things like Network Manager, systemd or what have you in the
> faint home of reverting in the next major release, you don't have a lot
> of viable long term options.
>
> Learn the new ways or fade from relevance.
>
> I say this without passing judgment on the merits of the new or old
> ways, simply as a fact of life. Even if you did hold out hope for, say,
> RHEL 8 to return to the old ways, you will have a hard time avoiding
> EL7. It will almost certainly be adopted wide-scale and that will
> provide inertia.
>
NetworkManager is the window's world way of doing things for people that don't really understand
what is going on. I see no use for it immediately disable it. But it pains me to have to take the time.

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