On 11/01/2011 03:21 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:42:47PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Yes, that much is obvious. So the answer is that there is no harm in >> actually removing network-manager. > > There is harm in diverging from upstream. We're a software > distribution, by default we integrate existing software and we try to do > so staying as close to upstream as possible. We do diverge from upstream > when we've good reasons to, but we don't do that "just because".
Would using Recommends instead of Depends also mean that we diverge from upstream? I don't think so. And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-they-exist. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eb026eb.4000...@bzed.de
