[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#641902: network-manager: please provide a *full* CLI (with a proper name)

[Luca Capello]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi there!

First, I do not understand why the CLI binary is called "nmcli" (without
the dash) when nm-online and nm-tool have the "nm-" prefix.  This is
counterintuitive, for the least.

Second, AFAIK nmcli can not act as a full CLI replacement for nm-applet
(or any other GUI equivalent) given that there is no way to *create* a
connection, which is very bad: I do not have any panel installed, which
means that I can not use network-manager.

Please note that this is not #629913 and that I *want* to use
network-manager (I am tired of manual configurations ;-) ), but not
installing (IMHO unnecessary) GUIs.  This is why I reported this bug as
wishlist.

BTW, I am sorry if I have reported this bug only now, feel free to
adjust the version:

  <http://lists.debian.org/87zkn3ltyx.fsf%40gismo.pca.it>

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113      
ii  dbus                   1.4.14-1   
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-21    
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.14-1   
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.94-4     
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3    
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.28.6-1   
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.10-2  
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         172-1      
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7      
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.0-2    
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.0-2    
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.102-1    
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-5   
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28     
ii  udev                   172-1      
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-3.1  

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base  2.58-3  
pn  iptables      1.4.12-1
pn  modemmanager  <none>  
pn  policykit-1   0.102-1 
pn  ppp           <none>  

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
## <http://bugs.debian.org/606268>
managed=false


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