Andrei Popescu wrote: > I agree with you, but in this particular case it is not a 'Depends' it > is a 'Recommends', and testing/unstable users should know how to > override those.
Andrei, I do not mind installing some extra packages if they are recommended, and I will leave the setting as it is; sometimes I discover useful software with it and from time to time I go through the list of installed packages in aptitude and purge unused ones. This has served me well for 9+ years using Debian. What I got really angry about is that network-manager (or some other packet; I will investigate tonight and file a bug) reconfigured my network on-the-fly a) without asking me, b) without telling me and c) without being told to do so. I do not use wicd or any other configuration helper (I'm not sure if I made it clear enough in my first mail that I'm not a friend of XXX-helper and YYY-manager packets...) I have configured my wireless network in /etc/network/interfaces, as described in /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian. When I tried out to set up the wireless connection manually with ifconfig+iwconfig+wpasupplicant, I found that wpasupplicant associated continuously with the AP, only to be kicked off by again by someone else (supposedly network-manager). While my first mail may have been written in a very angry state of mind, I still think that it is annoying at best to fiddle with people's network settings on a desktop machine, but on any other machine it may be fatal. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/34fc541415163b94a68a0e2fc782eda9.squir...@www.tty1.net
