Re: dependencies....

[Joan Moreau <joan moreau m4x org>]

Question form a dummy:
Is there any plan to merge dhcdbd and NetworkManager ?


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:58 +0000, rvnues tesco net wrote:
>   
> > >From http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/:
> >
> > "The most important pieces of NetworkManager are desktop-environment and distribution agnostic, functioning just as well in Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc. across distributions like Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo."
> >
> > So if these are the aims.. can I compile Netmanager on slackware without gnome ? (after long searches, on some gentoo-page, I discovered one has to 'configure --without-gnome') and still had to install quite a few other packages: hal, dbus, libnl, libgcrypt before to run into the required redhat-specific dhcbd... I gave up here, seems to be no end of dependencies.
> >     
>
> No, dhcdbd is _not_ redhat specific; anyone using or shipping
> NetworkManager ships dhcdbd.  That includes SUSE, Gentoo, Fedora,
> Ubuntu, Debian, PLD, etc.
>
>   
> > Maybe it would be VERY helpful if more specific installation/configuring-info is given in the README file; i.e. required packages; specific configuration options to bypass above problems etc??? 
> > Or maybe you sould state that the application is only for that restricted set of 5 (Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo) distributions ...
> >     
>
> You're probably correct.
>
>   
> > If anyone can give me some hint how to proceed, that would be very appreciated..
> >     
>
> Installing dchdbd is likely the last piece you'd need.  Note that you
> still need some user session applet or program to store and feed NM the
> config information.  There are currently two of those; the Gnome applet,
> and the KDE applet.
>
> Dan
>
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