On 11/14/11 at 10:22am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 03:43 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though I > > don't have a wifi interface on this machine? > > > > 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... > > > > 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? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Rick > > Try a dummy package. You can build dummy packages with equivs. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html > > No knowledge is needed, it just takes a minute. > > I replaced some pulseaudio packages for gnome-core and this didn't cause > any issue, but note, dummy packages could cause issues ;). > This amuses me because I replaced gnome packages for pulseaudio doing the same. -- Liam
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