19 Aug
2013
19 Aug
'13
1:23 a.m.
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
That is by design. As at 8.04 or 10.04 (the last time I looked), NM will ignore any interfaces specified in interfaces(5). It makes sense that if a fresh install is to have NM, it should lack interfaces(5) entries.
A further consequence is that you can populate interfaces(5), leave NM installed but inactive and not break GNOME 3 package dependencies by trying to remove or purge NM. This solution works under Debian; I assume it would hold under Ubuntu as well. As far as I know, GNOME is the only desktop environment which depends on NM.