Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:22:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Do we know for certain that installation of network-manager excludes
> alternatives?  Tollef replied to me on debian-devel wondering why people
> who don't want to use network-manager just disable it, which implies that
> there's some means to turn it off while it's still installed.  (I don't
> think I ever investigated that.)

I think "disable" means you need to tell network-manager that
it's not managing that interface.  I think I at least once
saw that after I stopped it manually it was restarted automaticly
over dbus or something.

I've set things up in /etc/network/interfaces, and that seems
to be having the effect that network-manager doesn't manage
that interface.


Kurt