On 08/24/2010 08:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: >> Having to support multiple boot paths for the system, making everyone >> who gets odd bugs filed against kernel, dracut, plymouth, etc. triage them >> isn't exactly an 'easy fix' - it *adds* complication to both paths. > > Right. In fact, I think we're supporting way too many deprecated > alternatives for way too long, e.g. when will the old legacy "network" > service which has been deprecated for ages finally be gone? > > Of course it makes sense to keep deprecated stuff around when it's needed to > make things work, e.g. HAL is still needed for KDE right now (but that might > already be resolved by F15 since work on new u* Solid backends is going > strong upstream, also thanks to Fedora developers from Red Hat Czech), but I > don't see anything requiring e.g. the old "network" to stay around. Isn't "network" needed for people who don't run NetworkManager? For the longest time, NM only worked predictably for logged-in users, which made "network" service a requirement for servers with static IPs and such. Jeff -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
