Re: Network Manager cannot be removed
On 2009-08-30 21:30 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of
>> trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to
>> the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode.
>
>> Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network Manager is
>> installed again. This time however, I cannot remove it without
>> removing Gnome.
>
> Make sure you report it (e.g. via `reportbug').
It is already reported as #542095¹.
> It's clearly a packaging bug.
Not necessarily, gnome is just a metapackage pulling in a set other
packages. Whether it should really bring in network-manager-gnome is
debatable, of course; but you are free to remove the metapackage and use
your own collection.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542095
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