Re: [Gnewsense-dev] wicd

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:02:14 -0500
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:08 +0100, Graziano wrote:
> > > I assume this means that network-manager lets you set up a VPN 
> > > connection, but that wicd doesn't have that feature.
> > > 
> > 
> > I understood it this way too.
> > I am not aware about how many people find that feature useful
> > anyway. I don't.
> > 
> 
> VPN support is a vital feature, especially for a netbook.

You are the first person I've seen who uses it (maybe second, my former
boss might have used it).

> Why is this discussion happening, exactly? What's the compelling
> reason to move away from network-manager and adopt wicd? It seems to
> me like that will just create a bigger delta at no benefit.

The number of backported packages required for network-manager is
getting silly.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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