Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie
On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 13:13, Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
The advantage of doing that is that it's what Ubuntu does IIRC, so
there will be extra pooling&sharing of resources to maintain those
setups, and the road should already be paved for it.
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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