[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Olivier Blin mageia at blino.org
Fri Sep 2 00:36:55 CEST 2011


Juan Luis Baptiste <juan.baptiste at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
>> Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
>>
>> - automatic package installation: network tools, manufacturer tools,
>> drivers and firmwares are automatically pulled by the tools when
>> configuring an interface (the list of packages mentionned in drakx-net
>> is also used to automatically include "hardware support" packages when
>> building a live image)
>
> noob question: couldn't this also be accomplished using packageKit ?

Probably, but even if using packagekit, the package installation still
has to be called from some UI, and if you want the UI to be NM, you
would have to rewrite in NM the devices detection code + packages list
from drakx-net

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Olivier Blin - blino


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