On 19.08.13 11:23, Jason White wrote:
A further consequence is that you can populate interfaces(5), leave NM installed but inactive and not break GNOME 3 package dependencies by trying to remove or purge NM.
This solution works under Debian; I assume it would hold under Ubuntu as well.
Err, I wouldn't make too many assumptions about ubuntu, based on debian. It's the creeping crappy auto-magical interference with the interfaces file which prompted me to kill that NetworkMunger.
As far as I know, GNOME is the only desktop environment which depends on NM.
Are you sure? My ubuntu boxes have been running for years with gnome and no network-manager or network-manager-gnome, and it meets all my needs and expectations. (Same for older versions of ubuntu.) Erik -- In attempting to ride roughshod over 1170 written objections, a local government determination, a resident survey 94% against them, and years of protests, McDonald's is seeking to trash democracy, I reckon. We have over 85,000 signatures on www.change.org, and are flying to Chicago with them.