Re: Wireless networking in guix

[Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>]

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>networkmanager is actively developed >and maintained with many people
>involved

>https <https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>://
<https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>www.openhub.net
<https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>/p/
<https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>network-
<https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>>manager
<https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager>
>vs
>https <https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd>:// <https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd>
www.openhub.net <https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd>/p/
<https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd>wicd <https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd>

>also, networkmanager is a dependency >of GNOME

It makes no sense to not package both if we can. If we ever get GNOME on
guix, which requires us to do something about that systemd dependency, then
we can set network manager as default.
On Jan 27, 2015 7:26 AM, "Ondra Pelech" <ondra.pelech@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> It doesn't seem to be the case:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/networkmanager.html
> >
> > That's strangely peculiar. On debian, network manager wouldn't dare run
> > except with systemd installed.
>
> it is probably a matter of configuration -- no hard dependency outside of
> debian
>
> > But even if so, I still do think that wicd is
> > the better option.
>
> networkmanager is actively developed and maintained with many people
> involved
>
> https://www.openhub.net/p/network-manager
> vs
> https://www.openhub.net/p/wicd
>
> also, networkmanager is a dependency of GNOME
>
>
> best regards
>

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