Hi Michael, On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:01:28AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 23.09.21 um 20:17 schrieb Holger Wansing: > > > I have just installed an LXDE system to test this, and now adding > > network-manager-gnome, installs 24 new packages, taking 39 MB of additional > > disk space, according to the apt-get output > I might consider splitting off network-manager's /usr/share/locale into an > (optional, Recommends/Suggests) network-manager-l10n package. The locales > take up about 8,5 MB of disk space.
I agree that 8.5MB are not much these days but if it helps to accept network-manager as a unique default this would probably a sensible step. > While I don't necessarily think that 8,5 MB are actually that much of an > issue for desktop installations, trimming down the on disk footprint might > make network-manager more suitable for more constrained environments. > > There is also a (somewhat stale) MR [1] for network-manager asking for the > individual plugins to be split into separate packages to make it possible to > trim down the dependency chain. > > If there is real demand for it, we could revisit that. In the same way I wrote above: If increases the acceptance for NM - yes, this sounds good. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de