El lun, 09-07-2012 a las 19:46 +0100, Ian Jackson escribió: > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > > "Breaks unrelated software" on the system is a RC severity, and there's no > > way one can say a windowing environment is related to core networking. > > Thus, I'd say, #542095 needs to be upgraded -- and changing Depends: to > > Recommends: is a non-intrusive fix. It will cause n-m to be installed > > unless explicitely refused, just like you want it to be. > > I definitely think this should be fixed for wheezy. > > Adam earlier wrote on -devel: > > I tested a good part of Gnome today without n-m and it appears there > are no regressions at all. The only differences are: > > * it gets rid of n-m icon in the systray (duh) > > The dependency comes via gnome-core depending on > network-manager-gnome. > > To the Gnome maintainers: given that Adam has done this test, to check > that things are OK without n-m, would you be willing to make this > change to the gnome-core metapackage ? > > Thanks, > Ian. > >
A system without network-manager is still usable even for desktop users. I mean, for example, when Pidgin opens, and n-m is not available, it just tries to connect directly to internet. When pidgin opens, and n-m is active pidgin waits to connect until n-m gets connected. Sometimes is annoying because other network interfaces may be active with full internet and pidgin waits until n-m reports ready. A similiar experience happens with Evolution. But, ignoring the "a desktop works fine without n-m" thing, n-m makes more, much more easy connecting to wifi networks, espeacially for laptops. I suggest make Laptop task depend on n-m, in this way, n-m don't get installed on desktop systems, just on laptop systems. -- Atte. Félix Arreola Rodríguez, Firmado con GPG, llave 1E249EE4
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