Control: tag -1 +wontfix Quoting Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) (2025-02-09 19:56:27) > iwd doesn't provide all the same features as the ones from > wpa_supplicant, especially everything not related to the Wireless world, > e.g. Ethernet authentication (bug#956457), or some more specific > features like MACsec. > > wpa_supplicant and iwd can then be used in parallel, for different > purposes.
When you install only the iwd package, then you can also install the wpasupplicant package, and carefully configure them to not step on each others' toes. What the package network-manager-iwd offers is relieving the user of manual configuration: It is ensured that iwd works together with network-manager, but since network-manager recommends wpasupplicant, it is not adequate to provide a network-manager config snippet, because wpasupplicant will still be installed and will in its default configuration interfere with the default configuration of iwd. Applying this patch would result in a package that offers a broken system by default. Advanced users needing both iwd and wpasupplicant already has the option of installing only iwd and then adding the needed network-manager configuration snippet themselves, as part of their larger configuration needs to tame the conflicting daemons. Thanks for the proposal, but I disagree with this one. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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