On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:44:44 -0500 Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
This morning, I have been trying out wicd/wicd-gtk in place of NetworkManager. This works pretty well so far. So, I was trying to erase NetworkManager-gtk and this is what I get:
It's a runtime library, required by certain applications to... detect network status (obviously, only functional if actually using NetworkManager, mind you). In short, leave 'em alone.
Thanks very much! It appears that geoclue is what requires libnm (inexplicably in my thinking) and the others are all in a cascading effect wrt geoclue.
On the other hand, I was wondering: is there a benefit to using NetworkManager over wicd? Just curious, because both seem to have the same functionality: I like that wicd provides me with more scanning information. But does this additional information come at a price? Both are from the fedora repos.
Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan