Drop nm-connection-editor?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:48 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 20:04 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > > We can't drop it: There are things it does the Network panel can't do. The
> > > Network panel actually invokes nm-connection-editor in many cases.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, I do think we should either split the .desktop file to a separate
> > > subpackage that won't be installed by default, or add a rule in the
> > > .desktop file saying it shouldn't be shown in GNOME.
> > 
> > nm-ce is intended to be the "everything" option; it's very
> > understandable that the GNOME network panel won't necessarily implement
> > everything that NM can do (for example, Data Center Bridging), so we may
> > wish to keep it available.  That doesn't mean it has to be installed by
> > default though.
> > 
> > The panel still uses the editor for 802.1x setup and some advanced stuff
> > I think.  I'm fine with setting "don't show in GNOME", but that would
> > ideally be either (a) a Fedora specific patch, or (b) if there was some
> > way to restrict it to GNOME 3.6+ but leave it for GNOME 2.x.
> 
> In Fedora 20 at least, nm-connection-editor is only to:
> - edit information about Wi-Fi devices, but we can't actually get to it
>   from anywhere in the UI
> - Launching an editor for unknown connection types
> 
> I think we could probably remove the dependency altogether...

Now I'm thinking about this, IIRC anaconda depends on it, so even if you
remove the dep from GNOME itself, live installs will still have it
present after installation. You can remove anaconda post-install, but
most people don't.
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