Hi, this is a reply to a message from the older bug but it has never been answered and I believe it's useful to take a proper decision so I answer in the new bug:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: > 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.) Nobody responded to this but while discussing with the GNOME maintainers I quickly got the answer. NM is a build-time dependency of GNOME Shell but Debian has patched GNOME Shell to make it optional to allow it to compile on kfreebsd: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/gnome-shell/3.4.2-2/10-make-NetworkManager-optional.patch During run time, NM is not required but its absence results in: - non-working network configuration screens in the GNOME settings - empathy/evolution and the like not being aware when they are offline and thus trying to connect when they should not (and generate/display potentially annoying errors) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org