Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

[Davide Bolcioni]

On Thursday, June 20, 2013 02:38:37 PM Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 13:15 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I think most "traditional" system admins see a running NM daemon as an
> > additional point of failure in a static network.  If my server's network
> > setup is static, I don't want a daemon running attempting to "manage"
> > it.  If it has a bug, gets misconfigured, etc., it might do something to
> > screw up an otherwise working setup.
> 
> Yes, it's just not easy to do without creating race conditions.  Various
> other components use NetworkManager as an API, and if just called exit()
> arbitrarily it'd introduce the problems described here:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11454
> 
> This point has been raised repeatedly, the developers are aware that
> it'd be nicer for NM to not show up in "ps" in these situations, but the
> reason it's not done is it's nontrivial and there are a lot of other
> things in the priority queue.

Maybe split off all functionality from the dbus daemon into separate binaries (off the top of 
my head, about a dozen, each in a separate package) and the dbus daemon uses system() to 
invoke the appropriate one when requested. Servers would just dispense with the daemon 
and invoke binaries directly in a startup script.

Davide Bolcioni
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