Re: [Evolution] WICD & NM

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:13 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > Up to a point. Two issues with NM are 1) for a long time it had almost
> > no user-oriented documentation (a man page that boils down to "it just
> > works" doesn't count), and 2) the point about easily determining
> > connectivity is only true if NM is the only network config tool. In many
> > distros that's still not the case, leading to much confusion.
> >
> > That said, I'm a happy camper and agree that NM is the way forward.
> >
> > poc
> I've already added my 2 cents but for anybody trying to limit libs in
> the hopes of running a "clean" system. NM adds lost of unwanted
> packages. On the other hand, if you're already running Gnome then you
> really should use that and no other. I'm a big believer that one
> should not buck mainstream with the more mainstream oriented distros.
> I use XFCE4 so I'm already somewhat off the beaten path. 

I run KDE in fact, but of course as an Evo user I already have some
Gnome libraries installed, as do you. Which of these are also used by NM
is something I'd need to look at.

poc