[arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 07/24/17 at 09:40am, Bennett Piater wrote:
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> On July 24, 2017 9:36:39 AM GMT+02:00, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >All fine and good but I don't see arch being installed on something 
> >other than desktop/laptop. Of course there are niche cases as arch 
> >server I do not doubt but how much of arch install base is traditional 
> >desktop? I think it's rather high.
> You are missing the point. Many arch users don't simply install a desktop environment and use its defaults. 
> If that's what you want, you may want to use another distribution, preferably one that focuses on your DE. 
> 
> I use a very minimal setup without DE, and I don't want bloated catch-all solution that doesn't integrate nicely into my configuration, thank you very much. 

Y'all seem to miss the point that provided on the ISO != installed
on your machine. I for one, don't see a problem with networkmanager
being installed on the ISO, nmtui works pretty well (as does nmcli), I'm
not sure however how much the ISO size will blow up.

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Jelle van der Waa
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