On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > This was back in the day when removing it took half the system with it. > > > > > > ... and Gene was using Ubuntu??? ;-) > > > > > > I have never, over many years, had any trouble removing N-M, which for > > > years > > > I did automatically at installation time. > > > > On the whole I would never argue about what a user chose to have on his > > or her machine for networking. My own preference is for ifupdown or > > connman, However, the many thousands of happy users of N-M are highly > > likely to ignore advice to remove it based on some dim recollection from > > ten years ago. > > Hm. I didn't take any of the mails in this thread as advising any of > the "many thousands of happy users of N-M" to remove anything. > > Whatever floats your boat.
This is not a quote from a private mail: > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, nuke > that puppy with extreme prejudice. -- Brian