Brian Potkin wrote: > I realise a default is only a default and the selection can be changed, > but I'm puzzled by the third option. Why treat a wireless install > differently from a wired install? It would expected that a user who has > chosen not to use a wired connection would still want connectivity after > booting into into the new system, On the one hand we have people installing a fixed machine that has only wifi connectivity. These do exist -- two examples I'm familiar with are a friend whose workplace uses wifi for industrial controllers on the factory floor, and a parent whose desktop machine is an eeePC with a wifi antenna. On the other hand, we have users who chose not to install a desktop environment but want their machine to migrate between networks when it's moved. These users are going to need to do some form of sysadmin work post-install, whether it's installing a desktop environment and wicd, or editing /etc/network/interfaces on each fresh network, or bringing up wifi connections by hand. So I can't see locking a default into /etc/network/interfaces causing them much bother. -- see shy jo
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