On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:31:14PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 01, Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> wrote: > > > I see one big drawback of ifupdown2, and that is that it's written in > > Python. Nothing wrong with that language, but it means it pulls in > > dependencies which a minimal install currently doesn't require, which is > > not so nice for people running small VMs or embedded devices. > Indeed. I strongly believe that this is bad enough to disqualify it as > the default implementation. > > We should also think hard about switching to a new default since > currently many other major distributions are moving to NetworkManager > and/or systemd-networkd (which nowadays is usable, works well for > simpler use cases and will be installed on every Debian system anyway).
For the latter, "installable only with a certain init implementation, and not portable to any kernel but Linux" doesn't say "every Debian system" to me. -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy.
