Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Andreas Barth]

* Michael Biebl (biebl at debian.org) [121024 03:57]:
> On 24.10.2012 03:29, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Don, in your option 4B, I wonder if it would be a good idea to  have the
> > depend be something like g-n-m|wicd|no-network-manager
> 
> The "gnome" meta-package certainly won't get an alternative dependency
> on wicd. That would be completely stupid and miss the point of this
> dependency. The GNOME desktop has zero integration with wicd, so this
> alternative dependency is completely backwards.

You think it would be better to move it to recommends instead?


> Why don't you force a dependency on ifupdown on us, or ifplugd or whatever.

Do you think that would be better for our users?


> This whole crusade by the ctte is so ridiculous, but unfortunately I
> can't laugh about that anymore.

Where is there a crusade? I don't see any. And btw, it doesn't help to
replace reason by emotion.



Andi