Do I really, really need network manager?

[Shuai Yu]

network manager is only there to make the network setup easier, for
example if you want to use pptp for VPN connection. You could be able to
remove it and use ifup to control but there will be some extra benefit
of network manager you could not get.
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:55 +0100, Michele wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The network manager keeps causing me grief both when booting *and*
> when shutting down. I am tempted to remove it from my installation of
> ubuntu on my laptop, but I wonder what the consequences will be. 
> 
> I use quite a lot the system > Administration > Network tool, is this
> related in any way to the network manager?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michele
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