Network Manager is More Modular

Garry T. Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 04:43:27 UTC 2014


That's the good news.

The bad news is:

$ sudo dnf erase NetworkManager-wifi
Dependencies resolved.
===============================================================================
 Package                Arch    Version                         Repository
                                                                          Size
===============================================================================
Removing:
 NetworkManager-wifi    x86_64  1:0.9.10.0-14.git20140704.fc21  @System  112 k
 kde-plasma-nm          x86_64  0.9.3.5-3.fc21                  @System  3.4 M
 kde-plasma-nm-openvpn  x86_64  0.9.3.5-3.fc21                  @System  418 k
 kde-plasma-nm-pptp     x86_64  0.9.3.5-3.fc21                  @System  154 k
 kde-plasma-nm-vpnc     x86_64  0.9.3.5-3.fc21                  @System  283 k

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================
Remove  5 Packages

My desktop machine doesn't have any Wifi adapter.  But I *do* use a
VPN all the time.

This looks like a bad dependency, no?

It's not all bad.  I at least got to remove some cruft:

$ sudo dnf erase NetworkManager-adsl NetworkManager-bluetooth
Dependencies resolved.
===============================================================================
 Package                  Arch   Version                         Repository
                                                                          Size
===============================================================================
Removing:
 NetworkManager-adsl      x86_64 1:0.9.10.0-14.git20140704.fc21  @System  27 k
 NetworkManager-bluetooth x86_64 1:0.9.10.0-14.git20140704.fc21  @System  92 k
Transaction Summary
===============================================================================
Remove  2 Packages

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Garry T. Williams



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