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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Old-Topics: Re: [Dng] three important UI features
Subject: [Dng] wicd & wpasupplicant (WAS: Re: three important UI features
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>
>     I discovered the name of wicd on this list recently. I didn't
> try it, therefore I can't compare, but it looks that it has more
> diverse interfaces than wpasupplicant, CLI, GUI and even Curses. I
> will probably try it the first time I install Devuan on a laptop.

>
>     I imagine neither wpasupplicant nor wicd will be infected by
> Systemd, and you'll have the choice between them.


It's not entirely a choice. wicd depends on wicd-daemon, which depends
on wpa-supplicant.

It looks as if, to some extent, wicd may constiture still more
interfaces to wpasupplicant, possibly with some state or smarts of its
own.

-- hendrik