Re: new wifi connection = nntp timeout = Emacs restart?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

>> But this requires installing the NetworkManager package, right?
>
> For detecting network changes, yes.
>
>> Which I've been happily doing without.
>
> Me too, until yesterday, but not happily. Dealing with WiFi through 'iw'
> and editing /etc/network/interfaces is not a success story, IMHO.

I've had pretty good luck with netctl and it's wifi-menu program.

>> I wonder what percentage of Gnus users are on dbus-enabled systems...
>
> On GNU/Linux: high percentage. It's very hard to remove DBus from a
> modern distribution. Unless you're working on a tty or only use
> 'startx', it's most probably running.
>
>> I don't suppose it's worth trying to make something built-in for them.
>
> I think it does no harm to have something like this as long as it
> doesn't bother people who don't want/have it. I'm sure Lars will
> eventually come up with the perfect method to detect stale TCP
> connections, but even then I'd consider this useful.

I've already had an off-list vote in the negative! But of course this
would come protected behind a custom option. If we even think there's
any point at all.

If Lars had a magic bullet, I think he would have used it by now...