Problem setting up wired networking

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:26 +0100, A.J. Werkman wrote:
> What do you mean by "this".
> 
> Do you mean a question in anaconda to select  NM Yes or no. In that case 
> I would say you have "the default choice" as a solution for people who 
> do not know what they are doing. And please do not victimise the knowing 
> by treating them as the unknowing.
> 
> Or do you mean my question asking for an opinion about this matter. In 
> that case be carefull not to call users dumb.

I meant the "Do you want to use NetworkManager or network?" question.

> 
> > they did, they'd be informed enough to do the very very simple steps to
> > disable NetworkManager in favor of the legacy network service.  It takes
> > very few lines in a kickstart %post to do it.
> 
> This is a non argument because in this respect you could strip a lot of 
> code from anaconda because it can all be handled in the %post section. 
> The plus of anaconda handling this is that users wil not have bother 
> coding it themselfs. And I do not consider the choice between network 
> and NM that extreem that it is justifiable to have users put it in %post.

If you haven't noticed, the trend over the last few releases has been to
move as much out of anaconda as possible.  It does ask a heck of a lot
less now, mostly just things necessary to complete the installation, not
a whole lot of questions about how the system should work after it has
been installed.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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