On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Derek Broughton <de...@pointerstop.ca> wrote: > Paulo Silva wrote: > >> Well, i'm not yet using Jaunty (still on Interpid) - and i got an >> annoying situation having both LXDE and Gnome installed - a dependence >> named lxnm, not only it's not working, as well it removes by conflict >> nm-applet (network-manager-gnome package), and if we insist >> reinstalling LXDE, we take the risk on being completelly offline (if >> we only have wireless access), like happened to me. >> >> I think it were a MOTU 'disaster' on marking lxnm package as >> conflicting with network-manager-gnome >> >> I commented it at the LXDE mailing list, and they didn't like it at all as >> well >> >> I hope this situation can be fixed soon - and helping people who want >> to use LXDE working with nm-applet (network-manager-gnome package), or >> having the freedom of choice - even from a larger wireless managers >> diversity (which may help us to know which ones are the very better) > > I'm not really sure what your issue is here, but there are a few things that > come to mind. > > 1) there should be a meta-package for network connections, which things like > network-manager should provide > > 2) LXDE is the real problem here - if it wants to run on Ubuntu, it really > needs to work with network-manager, because that's our default network > manager (???). If it can, then it can provide a dependency on "lxnm | > network-manager" (surely not network-manager-gnome). I'd be really, > really, surprised if this can't be fixed merely by providing those > alternate dependencies on the package and no other change. > > 3) I'm not sure network-manager really needs to be so exclusive, but there > must be _some_ network control applications that can't be installed, > because surely only one application can be managing any given connection. > -- > derek >
As to this being a "MOTU disaster," lxnm is synced directly from Debian with no Ubuntu changes. You might want to file a bug in Debian or contact the Debian maintainer. The same Debian maintainer seems to maintain the whole LXDE stack, and undoubtedly knows this package better than us. He very well might have a good reason for the Conflicts on network-manager. See: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lxnm.html - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Contributing Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
