[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#565878: network-manager: depends on dhcp3-*: bloat when static IPs

[ael]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.2-2
Severity: wishlist

network-manager pulls in dhcp3-client & dhcp3-common which are 
unneccessary when static IPs are used.

So it becomes impossible to have a "slim" efficient installation
on light weight machines. Perhaps a meta-"full" package might be needed for the
newbie who might not know whether dhcp is needed, depending on a 
network-manager-lite without dhcp for those who know what they are doing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc4_exact-59377-g7dc9c48
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  hal                           0.5.14-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.4-6    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libhal1                       0.5.14-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0                   0.7.2-2    network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.7.2-2    network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2               0.9-4      library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2                    0.9-4      library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libudev0                      150-2      libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.9-3    client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.51-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.2-1       network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-4         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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