Re: [gentoo] NetworkManager and conf.d files

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev gentoo org>]

Personally, what I have is,


RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth*"

in my /etc/conf.d/rc

What this does is not start any eth* devices (obviously, if you have a 
wlanX device you would want to put "!net.eth* !net.wlan*" in there - 
though it may be comma seperated, not sure of the exact format.

This also allows for baselayout updates and not having to worry about 
nuking the symlinks (because I typically forget to remove them) and 
INSTALL_MASK doesn't remove symlinks that are created.

Personally, what I would like to see is to do away with the backends 
completely - or as much as possible and using libnl to do all the heavy 
lifting of the dealing with networking, and only using the backends to 
import configurations that may exist (and I would like to see, perhaps a 
 Gnome desktop seed with NetworkManager integrated, and a KDE desktop 
seed with knetworkmanager integrated)  and of course, leaving it out for 
servers, things along those lines.  I have been extremely busy with 
work, and tis looking like it is about to get even busier as we are in 
the design phase of our next line of products, so I really haven't had a 
chance at all to touch anything lately.  I wish I did, but thats about 
all I have for now.