Control: block -1 by 919619 Matthieu Baerts wrote: > People using NetworkManager, and installing iwd will certainly want NM > to use it. [...] > This is what is being done on Ubuntu: > > > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iwd/commit/?id=e42ca2f7634eada23e62b07f40901250c912ae0f > > This should not affect existing users already using iwd with NM, or > the ones not using NetworkManager.
I would love IWD to be usable out of the box, also together with
network-manager. Unfortunately it is not as simple as adding that
config snippet to network-manager:
* network-manager plugin integrating with IWD is badly written
* Debian-maintainers of network-manager refuse to follow Debian
Policy regarding Recommends: versus Depends, so IWD cannot replace
wpasupplicant, but need to be installed concurrently, and the user
needs to manually disable wpasupplicant
As I understand it, adding this snippet would mean that installing IWD
would make network-manager pass secrets IWD instead of wpasupplicant,
but would still install wpasupplicant which would cause IWD to not work
until manually disabling wpasupplicant.
In short, this issue is blocked by bug#919619 requesting network-manager
to releax its policy-violating too strong dependency on wpasupplicant.
- Jonas
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