Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

On Mon, 2023-06-19 at 13:35 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Why does isc-dhcp-client have priority:important to begin with?
> I don't think users care so much about a dhcp client but rather a 
> network configuration system and each network configuration system
> has its own preferred dhcp implementation e.g NetworkManager no
> longer uses isc-dhcp-client by default and systemd-networkd doesn't
> use isc-dhcp-client either.
> 
> So maybe simply demoting the priority of isc-dhcp-client to normal is
> a better route.
> ifupdown already recommends isc-dhcp-client and if ifupdown want's to
> use dhcpcd in the future it could change this recommends.

The priority question isn't the important one. The real question is:

What network configuration system should users end up with (by
default)?

I think this should be NetworkManager for desktop environments and I
personally like systemd-networkd for other environments. In both cases
these replace both ifupdown and isc-dhcp-client.

I also think that installing both ifupdown and NetworkManager on
desktop environments is worse than only NM.

Ansgar