Jeremy Bicha writes ("Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome"): > I see two things missing from this resolution: > > 1. GNOME has a stronger dependency on NM than they did when Squeeze > was released. GNOME Shell now has a hard dependency on NM.
Do you mean http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gnome-shell ? Because that doesn't have any dependency on network-manager. So on a Debian wheezy system it is possible to install gnome-shell without network-manager. (There is a dependency on gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 but that's just introspection data and doesn't pull-in n-m itself, just some libraries.) > > The user has to take separate, explicit (and somewhat unusual for the > > average user) action to disable network-manager after it has been > > installed. > > 2. Yes, but it is also unusual for the average user to need to disable > NM. For the average user, the consequences of not having NM are quite > a bit worse than the benefits of being able to set up networking by > hand. It's definitely possible to disable NM and the procedure to do > this could easily be release-noted. Nothing in our proposal makes anything more difficult for the average user (by which I assume you mean someone who takes no special action). The average user's system will honour the Recommends and install network-manager. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org