FS#63908 - [iwd] provides some virtual package so that it can replace wpa_supplicant

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by BrLi (brli) - Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 17:44 GMT
Last edited by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Saturday, 16 November 2019, 16:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

iwd can work as alternative to wpa to some extend with comprehensive network managers like connman or networkmanager (by iwd's arch wiki page)

But users who installed those managers by the name would pull in wpa as dependency by default.
And users can only get rid of that by -Rdd wpa_supplicant afterwards.

IMO iwd and wpa_supplicant should provides the same virtual package for user to choose from, like the case for libgl and some other multiple backend solution.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Saturday, 16 November 2019, 16:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  networkmanager will opt-dep on wpa_supplicant, instead.
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Saturday, 16 November 2019, 16:15 GMT
A virtual package will not happen, but I hope the networkmanager maintainers will opt-dep wpa_supplicant soon.

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