Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome
]] Ian Jackson
> This is particularly true when these users have already decided not to
> take the maintainer's advice. By the decision not to install n-m,
> those users have already overruled the maintainer for their own
> systems. To say that we think the maintainer knows best is going
> against the clearly expressed opinion of a user who has deliberately
> deinstalled n-m.
.. or who just has an old system which didn't have Recommends
installation enabled by default, or where it's been disabled since
Recommends end up dragging in all kinds of stuff.
It's a bit late now, but when we changed the default for Recommends to
be on by default, we should have purged the archive of existing
Recommends.
> And, as you say, reinstalling n-m during the upgrade is deeply
> problematic. At the very best it will have no beneficial
> effect until the user take explicit action to reconfigure their
> networking to use n-m. There is of course no particular reason why it
> would be difficult for a user who changed their mind to reinstall n-m
> as and when they felt like it - under conditions where they are
> prepared for a failure of their networking and have the time and
> inclination to reconfigure.
At best, it will mean the user who previously had a working networking
menu still has one after the upgrade. wicd, from what's been told here,
does not integrate at all with gnome-shell, meaning those users are now
left without an obvious way to configure their networking.
I don't think that's in the users's best interest either.
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