Re: NM support for Gentoo

[Rémi Cardona <remi cardona free fr>]

Gustav van der Merwe wrote:
> NM seems like a really cool tool, but I can't find instructions anywhere
> on getting it up and working for gentoo.
> A bit of googling around shows that there was interest at one point
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-August/msg00132.html and that it actually kind of worked.
> I can't find anything recent showing that there has been work towards
> supporting gentoo, or getting a gentoo ebuild out there and this is a
> shame.
> I would like it if gentoo had the same kind of powerful network tools as
> other distributions.
>
> Is there any reason that gentoo does not have NM in portage?

NM is currently being tested in Gentopia where most of the new 
Gnome/freedesktop stuff shows up before going into portage.

You can use layman to automatically download and update the gentopia 
overlay on your system.

I think Steev (who's working on NM in Gentopia) said NM wasn't ready for 
portage because it doesn't integrate at all with the gentoo netscripts. 
Currently you have to delete all net.<intf> if you want NM to be able to 
manage them properly without any conflicts.

Hope that helps,

Rémi