Once upon a time, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> said:
On the other hand, having NetworkManager available all the time
enables things like management tools to use its API to query system
status, instead of guessing it from kernel information and heuristic
analysis of some files under /etc.
Current network information is available from the kernel and doesn't
require "guessing". Why would you code something to talk to some random
daemon API (that may change) when you could talk directly to the source
via the kernel netlink API?
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>