new NetworkManager dependencies?

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/04/2012 12:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:38:33 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> Are you saying that even if you
>>
>> systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
>>
>> it gives you problems?
> Yep. It springs into life when I do something like plug in
> a device that will become wlan0.
>
> I think I've fixed it though: I now have this added to my
> "big hammer" yum update hooks:
>
> rpm -q --list NetworkManager 2>/dev/null | xargs rm -rf
>
> NetworkManager is free to pretend to be installed, I just
> remove all the files :-).

Interesting...  Do you happen to know what part of NM springs to life?  Seem like disabling it would prevent that.  I think I can test that sometime soon.  

Did you file a bugzilla against it?  Don't want to duplicate the effort.

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