Announcing ConnMan.net [LWN.net]

Announcing ConnMan.net

Posted Jun 23, 2009 21:11 UTC (Tue) by Tcler (guest, #5919)
In reply to: Announcing ConnMan.net by Cyberax
Parent article: Announcing ConnMan.net

From what I understand the main motivation is that NetworkManager has way too many dependencies. It requires installation of a lot of other tools that aren't necessarily desirable in a smartphone, MID, or other small form factor device.

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Announcing ConnMan.net

Posted Jun 23, 2009 22:41 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

cyberax@devsrv:~/work/app$ apt-cache depends network-manager
network-manager
Depends: libc6
Depends: libdbus-1-3
Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2
Depends: libglib2.0-0
Depends: libhal1
Depends: libnl1
Depends: libnm-glib0
Depends: libnm-util1
Depends: libnspr4-0d
Depends: libnss3-1d
Depends: libpolkit-dbus2
Depends: libpolkit2
Depends: libudev0
Depends: libuuid1
Depends: iproute
Depends: iputils-arping
Depends: lsb-base
Depends: wpasupplicant
Depends: dbus
Depends: hal
Depends: update-notifier-common
Depends: ppp

I don't really see too many dependencies. Well, update-notifier-common probably can be dropped. Almost everything else is already used on Moblin.

Probably, we have yet another severe case of NIH.