It seems safe enough to move network-manager-gnome to a recommends. Then it will be installed by default, but won't block local configuration.
FWIW, my own reasons for wanting this are twofold: 1. I'd like to be able to keep wicd installed on my laptop, but the result is I can't install the gnome metapackage there. 2. Sometimes when I set up a desktop machine, that is on a wired LAN, and has users of a certian class (<cough>), it's best to avoid all possible network failure modes, by not providing the user with a network manager UI at all. Maybe even using static network setup in some cases. However, in this case I *especially* still want to keep the gnome metapackage installed, since I want the machine to keep a working gnome desktop on upgrade. -- see shy jo
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