Comment 7 for bug 1274570

> That's true, but I was trying to avoid more dependency on packaging for the
> correct operation of MAAS itself.

Fair point.

I think we can build a better product overall by absorbing more of the packaging assets into upstream MAAS. It would blur the division between upstream and Ubuntu, but things like detecting changes to NICs is fairly platform-specific, and MAAS upstream is meant for Ubuntu anyway.

Put another way, we, as upstream maintainers, should take more responsibility for the end-user's experience by reducing the delta between upstream MAAS and installed MAAS.