On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:36:48AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > It sounds to me that you have broken this behavior on purpose, where > > you could instead have added an interface to make disabling an > > interface more convenient than sed hackery (as mandated by policy). > > No. Also I'd like to remind you that this sed hackery has already been > done by NM maintainers without much discussions on how to make it > better.
Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. To avoid similar issues to arise again in the future, I wonder, would it be feasible to implement something like Joss mentioned, i.e. some sort of ifupdown blessed mechanism to enable/disable interfaces? The need of doing so exists, NM is an example of that. Enabling people to do so without _having_ to rely on text file fiddling would be an improvement over the status quo. (Arguably, this part of the discussion {c,s}ould be moved to the BTS.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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