Re: getting rid of the gnome-shell network-manager dependency

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
>> Any idea when gnome-shell will be fixed to not depend on
>> network-manager being installed?
>
> yesterday

Hmm, it still wasn't fixed in my update today ... maybe it hasn't
percolated through to the mirror I use?

>> [gnome-shell dies at startup unless network-manager is installed, but
>> network-manager interacts very badly with NFS, so installing NM is at
>> best a painful workaround...]
>
> Instead of posting here, you could have checked the BTS

 I did check the BTS, though a few days ago (which is where I found out
 about the install-NM workaround).

Thanks,

-miles

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