>> This seems wrong: I have both packages installed here (thanks to
>> "--force-conflicts") and they both work fine. Of course, if you ask
>> them both to manage the same device, it won't work, but that's no reason
>> to prevent reasonable people from installing them.
> Why would you want to have both of them installed? They are both "network
> managers", and I can't see any reason why one should use both of them.
My experience over the last few years has been that NM hasn't been able
to get their wifi support working reliably and sanely. Hopefully that
will be fixed at some point in the future, but for now, wicd is the
wifi-manager of choice.
OTOH, wicd's support for VPN is not nearly as good as NM's. So using
the two does make sense. As a matter of fact I not only use those two
but even a third one: ifplugd for the wired ethernet. This last one is
mostly for historical reasons, but still, using all 3 at the same time
works just fine, and indeed there's no "conflicts" between ifplugd and
network-manager or wicd.
Stefan
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