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Συντάκτης: Marlon Nunes
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Προς: dng
Αντικείμενο: Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager
On 2015-06-12 17:48, Anto wrote:
> On 12/06/15 22:15, Anto wrote:
>>
>> On 12/06/15 18:34, Marlon Nunes wrote:
>>> 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. =)
>>>
>>
>>
>> I doubt that connman is free of systemd. I was just in the middle of
>> preparing to compile connman 1.29, and I saw 2 files which are
>> definitely meant for systemd. And they are in http://git.kernel.org.
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/connman/connman.git/tree/src/connman.service.in
>> [Unit]
>> Description=Connection service
>> Requires=dbus.socket
>> After=dbus.socket
>> Before=remote-fs-pre.target
>> Wants=remote-fs-pre.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> Type=dbus
>> BusName=net.connman
>> Restart=on-failure
>> ExecStart=@sbindir@/connmand -n
>> StandardOutput=null
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/connman/connman.git/plain/vpn/connman-vpn.service.in
>> [Unit]
>> Description=ConnMan VPN service
>> Requires=dbus.socket
>> After=dbus.socket
>>
>> [Service]
>> Type=dbus
>> BusName=net.connman.vpn
>> ExecStart=@sbindir@/connman-vpnd -n
>> StandardOutput=null
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>> I know that they are harmless. But that tells me the intention to
>> allow it to be locked-in into systemd. So I always want to remove
>> everything related to systemd including the unit, service and socket
>> files. I got the impression that a lot of people find my attempt to do
>> that ridiculous. But I really don't care :)
>>
>
> I just purged all connman files that I downloaded tonight. I think t
> is not worth trying to compile and install it. The title of the commit
> below clearly says that connman is definitely being locked-in to
> systemd.
>
> machine: Integrate ConnMan with systemd-hostnamed
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/connman/connman.git/commit/?id=d5acb39e80b40d2b21eed37506523e73fcd8956f
>
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root@core >> eix-installed -a | wc -l
906

root@core >> eix-installed -a | grep systemd
root@core >>

As you saw, no single systemd here.


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