Re: new NetworkManager dependencies?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 08:54:26 -0400
Tom Horsley  wrote:
> I have found that the only way I can ever get networking to
> function correctly on my systems is to
>
> yum erase NetworkManager
>
> with NM installed it insinuates tentacles into everything,
> doing stuff like grabbing control of USB network devices
> when I plug them in (devices I don't want it fooling with).
>
> Now, yum has just reinstalled NetworkManager because new
> dependencies dragged it in. When I remove it, all this
> new junk goes with it:

...snip...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862835

This was a control-center bug where they added the dep.

You might note in that bug that the dep is undesireable and see if they
can fix whatever issue a better way.

kevin