Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome
Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > AIUI the point of introducing wicd was to try to find some kind of
> > compromise. Given the response from the GNOME maintainers, I think
> > it is a bad idea.
>
> That's correct. I was hoping to find some kind of compromise that
> would satisfy the gnome maintainers' requirement to have NM installed
> by default whilst mitigating breakage.
Right.
(Although I need to quibble with your "by default". No-one is
suggesting that n-m should not be installed by default. The gnome
maintainers' requirement is to have n-m installed even when the user
has previously deliberately deinstalled it.)
Ian.
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