[arch-releng] February release

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:41:31PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am 30.01.2013 20:11, schrieb Dave Reisner:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 03:57:08PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> >> On 01/30/2013 03:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > For the next release I suggest we seriously consider using Network Manager
> >> > on the instal medium. nmcli seems to cover most relevant use cases now.
> >>
> >> I was thinking about this when systemd replaced initscripts.
> >>
> >> +1 for me.
> > Can we talk about pruning out some of the weight from the ISO before we
> > add another 20MB via NM and dependencies? We'd need to add, roughly:
> > 
> > dbus-glib
> > glib-networking
> > gsettings-desktop-schemas
> > libsoup
> > nspr
> > nss
> > polkit
> > sqlite
> > networkmanager
> > 
> > Not really a fan of network manager, but I don't really deal with the
> > headaches that come with wifi so often. Is nmcli more than just a config
> > file parser these days?
> 
> NetworkManager would work quite well for us. The deps look a little
> insane though. I don't know why it would need libsoup and Gnome stuff.

If adding NM is the deemed The Right Thing To Do™ then fine, but I'd
like to make sure that it's actually valuable. Last I looked, using
nmcli meant handwriting config files which had no documented syntax.

> I would say we keep things as-is for at least the February ISO image.

Very much agreed.

d