Re: dependencies....

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 11:28 +0200, Joan Moreau wrote:
> Question form a dummy:
> Is there any plan to merge dhcdbd and NetworkManager ?

No, not really, there's no need to.  They both do different things, have
different scope.  NetworkManager is a client of dhcdbd, and is not
necessarily the only one.

Dan

> 
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:58 +0000, rvnues tesco net wrote:
> >   
> >> >From http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/:
> >>
> >> "The most important pieces of NetworkManager are desktop-environment and distribution agnostic, functioning just as well in Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc. across distributions like Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo."
> >>
> >> So if these are the aims.. can I compile Netmanager on slackware without gnome ? (after long searches, on some gentoo-page, I discovered one has to 'configure --without-gnome') and still had to install quite a few other packages: hal, dbus, libnl, libgcrypt before to run into the required redhat-specific dhcbd... I gave up here, seems to be no end of dependencies.
> >>     
> >
> > No, dhcdbd is _not_ redhat specific; anyone using or shipping
> > NetworkManager ships dhcdbd.  That includes SUSE, Gentoo, Fedora,
> > Ubuntu, Debian, PLD, etc.
> >
> >   
> >> Maybe it would be VERY helpful if more specific installation/configuring-info is given in the README file; i.e. required packages; specific configuration options to bypass above problems etc??? 
> >> Or maybe you sould state that the application is only for that restricted set of 5 (Fedora Core, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, and Gentoo) distributions ...
> >>     
> >
> > You're probably correct.
> >
> >   
> >> If anyone can give me some hint how to proceed, that would be very appreciated..
> >>     
> >
> > Installing dchdbd is likely the last piece you'd need.  Note that you
> > still need some user session applet or program to store and feed NM the
> > config information.  There are currently two of those; the Gnome applet,
> > and the KDE applet.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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