Bug#542095: NM conflicts with sanity

[Michael Biebl]

Am 17.10.2011 22:37, schrieb Adam Borowski:
> Hi!
> 
> Could we please get the trimmed down gnome-desktop-environment metapackage
> back?  One without network-manager and avahi.
> 
> Currently, there's choice between having gnome but no networking more
> complex than DHCP, or no gnome.
> 
> Trying to upgrade gnome manually results in a blank screen with blue
> vertical stripes that doesn't respond to anything but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace,
> or, with gnome-fallback, same screen with an inoperative menu.  The
> packaging doesn't give a clue about what could be missing.  Thus, even for a
> technical person who doesn't know gnome's insides, the metapackage is pretty
> useful.

If you can't stand network-manager, I'd advise you to disable it via
invoke-rc.d network-manager disable

The package dependency reflects what upstream does.
NetworkManager is deeply integraded into the GNOME 3 desktop, e.g. gnome-shell
and gnome-control-center, so the dependency is there for a reason.

Cheers,
Michael
-- 
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universe are pointed away from Earth?

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