Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Fri Jun 21 13:11:50 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> said:
> The kernel does not know anything about interfaces which do not
> exist, possibly lacks information about interfaces which are not up,
> and has no concept whatsoever of DNS, DHCP (at least after boot) or
> OpenVPN or settings.

The idea of NM being able to go away is for static configurations, such
as servers, where there are no interfaces that don't exist.  If it
matters, it is up, and there's already plenty of library access to DNS.
-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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