> Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though > I don't have a wifi interface on this machine? Do you have GNOME installed? Through the dependency chain wpasupplicant is required by network-manager, which is required by gnome. > The machine has a single 10/100 twisted pair ethernet interface > which is configured "static" in the /etc/network/interfaces file. > It does not have any wifi hardware, and (consequently?) no wifi > mentioned in interfaces... A typical machine. > If I try to deinstall wpasuplicant, it then wants to also remove > network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Should I just let it? > What would be the consequences if I do? It is okay to do this. It will remove some of the meta-packages that have the purpose of depending upon the entire component set of gnome, of which that set includes network-manager and wpasuplicant. Many people do this to replace network-manager with wicd. This topic is discussed about every third day on this mailing list. http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=network-manager&list=debian-user&sort=relevance&HITSPERPAGE=100 Bob
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