[kde, lxde, xfce] Removing ModemManager dep from NM, adding to comps instead

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 26 22:21:40 UTC 2012


Dan Williams wrote:
> People who don't have 3G modems and know they wont in the future have no
> need of installing or running MM.  Thus I'd like to remove the RPM dep
> from NetworkManager, and instead add ModemManager to the default comps
> installs of all the major desktop environments instead.  Thus base
> system installs won't include ModemManager, but desktop installs would.
> Most 3G users are likely desktop users as well.

Why not add this to some desktop-independent comps group instead, e.g. base, 
dial-up or hardware-support? I think the desktop groups are not the right 
place to put this, it has nothing to do with desktops.

        Kevin Kofler



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