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    core: add "external" flag for connections of external devices · 96c9703b
    Thomas Haller authored
    When a device is not marked as unmanaged, but also not actively managed
    by NetworkManager, then NetworkManager will generate an in-memory
    profile to represent the active state, if the device is up and
    configured (with an IP address).
    
    Such profiles are commonly named like "eth0", and they are utterly
    confusing to users, because they look as if NetworkManager actually
    manages the device, when it really just shows that somebody else configures
    the device.
    
    We should express this better in the UI, hence add flags to indicate
    that.
    
    In practice, such profiles are UNSAVED, NM_GENERATED, and VOLATILE. But
    add an explicit flag to represent that.
    
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1816202
    96c9703b