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

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 26 22:25:24 UTC 2012


Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2012, 14:54 -0600 schrieb Dan Williams:
> 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.
> 
> Thoughts?  If there aren't any objections from the KDE, LXDE, or XFCE
> folks I'll update comps as I describe here.

Is it - it least in theory - possible to configure 3G with
NetworkManager but without a UI? In this case it should be moved to
base, dial-up or hardware-support. If not, adding it to the *-desktop
groups is fine with me.

Regards,
Christoph




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