On 2015-06-12 10:03, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:50:25 -0300
> Marlon Nunes <nunes@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very
>> well my network connections.
>>
>> https://01.org/connman
>
> The following sentence from the preceding link made me sweat a little
> bit:
>
> =====================================================
> ConnMan is optimized through open source for embedded and client
> focused Intel® Quark technology, Intel® Atom™ processors and Intel®
> Core™ processors.
> =====================================================
>
> I'm an AMD guy.

I found it ok just for the fact that its completely independent of
systemd.

>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman
>
> Those Arch guys are the biggest bunch of systemd jingoists on the
> planet but you've got to admit, they write far and away the best
> documentation on the planet.

Their wiki help pages are almost complete.

>>
>> In my view, we can forget about network-manager completely for
>> desktop usage.
>
> Whether we stay with Wicd, which Devuan Alpha 2 does such a great job
> with, or switch to ConnMan, either way, you're right: network-manager
> is too entangled in dbus and systemd to be useful on Devuan, and it
> also requires you be in X, and that's not always true.
>
> I think that whether Wicd or ConnMan is our default network "make it
> easier machine", it should be easy to switch between the two, and part
> of that ease could be good documentation.
>
> By the way, I was going to answer Bardot Jérôme's query about Devuan
> Network-Manager similarly: Better to be rid of Network-Manager than to
> wonder if it's going to drag in systemd on an update. Network-Manager's
> wonderful for the one use case Debian envisions, but turns into a
> stumbling block when you go offroad.

That's why a wrote about it. =)

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