starting Fedora Server SIG

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 17:23 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> If the task is:
> [snip]
>> Then everything else is unnecessary to have running.
>>
>> If the task is to deal with complicated dhcp and wireless configurations, 
>> multiple and complicated vpn configurations and notify the 
>> console/desktop user about all of these things (which a lot of laptops 
>> fall into that category) then NM is extremely useful and I'd argue 
>> necessary for a convenient computing experience.
> 
> But there's a cost to maintaining two systems that are entirely
> divergent and with little sharing/modularity.  I don't see the value of
> "don't run a daemon" as outweighing the cost of "keep another system
> maintained".  

So... have an 'exit after initial configuration' option for NM?
/me runs and hides now

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