> Some time ago you would put effort on that possibility, now you may not because... DBus and NM are everywhere! Which sounds like a good thing. People have pu

> Some time ago you would put effort on that possibility, now you may not because... DBus and NM are everywhere! Which sounds like a good thing. People have put in a lot of effort on things like DBus and NM, so that applications can use a consistent, reliable API. That's rather a waste if every application author still has to handle the case when they're missing. They're valuable precisely because we can build on top of them. I'm slightly playing devil's advocate, but that's actually pretty close to my real view.