The Internet Systems Consortium has stopped maintaining their DHCP client, which is standard on a lot of distros.
Debian has updated its documentation and now warns users to choose an alternative:

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/isc-dhcp-client

On Debian Unstable, I was already forced to uninstall it in yesterday’s upgrade.
If you’re using network-manager, you don’t need to worry, since it includes its own dhcp client, but for others, this might be relevant.

On Arch, this concerns the dhcpd package:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    Neither GNOME nor Plasma depend on NetworkManager, do they?

    Not directly, but distros may choose to create a dependency.

    On Debian, installing recommended dependencies is enabled by default and disabling them can lead to all sorts of errors and missing functionality.
    gnome-shell recommends gnome-control-center, which recommends network-manager-gnome, which depends on network-manager.
    So unless you go out of your way to install a very minimal system, it gets pulled in.

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      11 months ago

      From my point of view, nothing else but NetworkManager makes sense to ship by default for a distribution aimed at desktop use. So I fully understand distributions doing this. My point was rather that this is not related to any particular WM / DE.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t think so. Dhcpcd + wpa_supplicant is really light, suitable for light installers, and live USB stick images.

        I’ve been using dhcpcd + wpa_supplicant for so long… I do understand currently users prefer NM, but I hope there’s no push for it to be the unique way to manage network connectivity, and on light installers, I hope I’m not force to use NM either.

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          11 months ago

          I mean traditionally NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant anyways though there is the option for iwd. So it will stay available for quite some time.