Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> [240903 14:04]:
> My position is that I am happy for Debian to have the option of netplan 
> but I do not think that it should be installed by default, because it is 
> an abstraction which adds complexity and that nobody asked for other 
> than its developers.
> 
> And this is an orthogonal issue with deciding if ifupdown is appropriate 
> for a modern system (I have been using it for close to 30 years and at 
> this point I think that it has served its purpose and there are better 
> defaults...).

I want to echo all of this. All my customers sites are currently
migrating away from ifupdown to networkd, and they don't need or
want an intermediate layer.

For the desktop(-like) systems, NetworkManager works nicely, again
without a need for an intermediate layer.

Again, having the option is nice. But I don't see netplan as a
useful default.

Chris