On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 07:00 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Holger Wansing (linux@wansing-online.de): > > > > In short, adding Ben's answer, there is indeed no bug here. > > > > What about Ben's hint, installing iw and crda with task-desktop? > > I'm not really convinced that task-desktop is here to fill up missing > dependencies from other packages. > > If Xfce installs wicd, which in turn doesn't need iw, I don't really > see any reason to add iw to all desktop machines because of this. By the same token, we don't need iproute2 if there is no GUI tool that invokes it. See how silly that argument is? iw is the standard Linux command for configuring wireless interfaces. But you are quite unlikely to have them on a server, otherwise I would suggest it should be priority standard. crda is definitely required for wireless interfaces, but it is normally invoked via a udev hook rather than from a shell or GUI front-end. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.
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