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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:12:22 +1030 |
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:20:08 -0500
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:06 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:02:14 -0500
> > Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Why is this discussion happening, exactly? What's the compelling
> > > reason to move away from network-manager and adopt wicd? It seems
> > > to me like that will just create a bigger delta at no benefit.
> >
> > The number of backported packages required for network-manager is
> > getting silly.
>
> But as long as it's the default in Debian (which it is, to the best of
> my recollection), doesn't adopting something else mean a bigger delta
> in the long term? Presumably the backported packages will become
No, because at a future point (eg, gNS 4,5,6) we can go back to n-m
instead of wicd.
> stable at some point, shrinking the delta, but wicd will never be
> adopted as the default in Debian.
The backported packages will be 'stable' when they enter debian stable
- on the next release.
kk
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