Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends"): > Do we know for certain that installation of network-manager excludes > alternatives? Tollef replied to me on debian-devel wondering why people > who don't want to use network-manager just disable it, which implies that > there's some means to turn it off while it's still installed. (I don't > think I ever investigated that.)
I don't know that we have investigated that. But I do know that having it install n-m might be a problem even if you can disable n-m afterwards. For example, n-m might break your network on installation. > I'm not sure how significant that is to the decision, but it sounded like > people are assuming that having network-manager installed excludes use of > wicd or something else, so I want to be sure people aren't making > decisions based on false premises. Also ISTR reading some assertions in the discussion that people who had previously installed n-m, found it troublesome and disabled it, had it reenabled somehow. Not installing something is generally a more reliable approach than asking people to fiddle with its config. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20485.43670.488179.65...@chiark.greenend.org.uk