ISC plans to end maintenance of the ISC DHCP client and relay by the end of Q1, 2022.

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

  • @Laser@feddit.de
    5•8 months ago

    Neither GNOME nor Plasma depend on NetworkManager, do they? Plasma will happily show information about connections managed by something else than NetworkManager, but won’t be able to manage them itself. But desktop distributions will most likely ship it as it covers basically all use cases.

    • @KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldOP
      3•8 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.

      • @Laser@feddit.de
        3•8 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.

        • @kixik@lemmy.ml
          1•8 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.

          • @Laser@feddit.de
            3•8 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.