Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Shockingly, I find myself in agreement with at least some of the
> views of the GNOME maintainers. As I have said, I don't think this
> proposed dependency on wicd makes any kind of sense. It achieves
> neither the objectives of the GNOME maintainers nor the objectives
> of users who have chosen to remove n-m.
> 
> AIUI the point of introducing wicd was to try to find some kind of
> compromise. Given the response from the GNOME maintainers, I think
> it is a bad idea.

That's correct. I was hoping to find some kind of compromise that
would satisfy the gnome maintainers' requirement to have NM installed
by default whilst mitigating breakage.

Since the option appears to have done neither, and I'm not
particularly enamored with it either, I'm going to drop it. [If
someone else feels strongly about having it on the ballot, please feel
free to reintroduce it.]


Don Armstrong

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