Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > I understand that the Gnome maintainers want N-M installed by default.
> > Except I think recommends gets you that.
>
> That's what I'm confused about too, but I'm assuming that there is
> indeed a reason why Recommends isn't enough, and the gnome meta
> package has to Depends: NM. [The questions I posed earlier still
> haven't been answered, unfortunately.]
I think your assumption is incorrect.
The gnome maintainers have written a great deal in these bug reports
but have failed to come up with the reason you are looking for.
The simpler hypothesis is that there is no reason.
Ian.
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