[pkg-wpa-devel] Proposal: Split the package

[Kel Modderman]

Felix Homann wrote:
>
> 3. It would provide an easily maintainable upgrade path, i.e. those who have 
> been using the old daemon still can without trouble. (BTW, has anything 
> improved for them by the new approach? I think it only has caused trouble...)
>   

I have had great feedback from many people for the alternative approach 
that I brought to the table; ifupdown integration.
> That's presumably everyone who has been using wpasupplicant before, who is 
>   
> just interested in having a working setup as before.
>   

Subjectively speaking, wpasupplicant never really "worked" for me before 
now.

The ifupdown scripts are self contained and lay dormant unless you 
activate them with the special commands in /e/n/i, therefore they can be 
installed by default regardless.

The init script, as I understand it, really has its limitations:

    * it can be used with only one interface as defined in its conffile
    * it conflicts with new low-level services, such as network-manager,
      because it is always active
    * it was never intended to be used as the backbone of a "roaming
      daemon solution" (in my opinion) but was just used that way out of
      convenience

I have no objection to the daemon personally, but its deprecation was 
discussed and decided upon before I arrived on the scene. So I will 
leave this discussion open at least until Reinhard is involved, and 
focus on addressing the issues with ifupdown integration and 
documentation until then.

Thanks, Kel.