Bug#542095: should recommend network-manager-gnome

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 20:35 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : 
> It seems safe enough to move network-manager-gnome to a recommends.
> Then it will be installed by default, but won't block local
> configuration.
> 
> FWIW, my own reasons for wanting this are twofold:
> 
> 1. I'd like to be able to keep wicd installed on my laptop,
>    but the result is I can't install the gnome metapackage there.

The choice of not letting wicd as an alternative is deliberate. Wicd is
not integrated throughout GNOME and we want to reduce as much as
possible the number of possible configurations to be able to support
them better.

> 2. Sometimes when I set up a desktop machine, that is on a wired
>    LAN, and has users of a certian class (<cough>), it's best
>    to avoid all possible network failure modes, by not providing the
>    user with a network manager UI at all. Maybe even using static
>    network setup in some cases. However, in this case I *especially*
>    still want to keep the gnome metapackage installed, since I want
>    the machine to keep a working gnome desktop on upgrade.

I think this is just a matter of configuring the NM PolicyKit
configuration.

In the end this is possible, and you’re not the first one to ask, but
then we’ll get bug reports from stupid users asking why this or that
functionality doesn’t work, while Recommends have not been installed.
I’m not eager to see this, and this is why we still have strict
dependencies.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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