Re: [PATCH] resolv.conf updating

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:28:19PM +0300, Tambet Ingo wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> There's been quite a few discussions on how to update resolv.conf on
> debian. Now that opensuse is also moving to a script to update
> resolv.conf, I wrote a patch for NM to allow distro specific methods
> for updating. It defaults to writing out manually (all distros except
> opensuse for now), but should give a good example how to add a debian
> specific workaround.

so the idea is to put the distro specific code directly into
nm-named-manager.c ?

> 
> The other patch just removes the unused (and broken by design)
> "should_update_resolv_conf".

Good. With this removed and with distro specific system configuration
things going into system-settings plugins, what use-cases are left for
src/backends? Can we get rid of that completely?

Distro specific configuration should definitly go into a
system-settings plugins. What use-cases are left for src/backends


 - Alexander