new NetworkManager dependencies?

[Gordon Messmer]

On 11/03/2012 09:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I think I've fixed it though: I now have this added to my
> "big hammer" yum update hooks:

Isn't this more or less how Eric Raymond broke his system before he 
publicly stormed away from using Fedora?  He forcefully removed a 
package that others depended on, and then the system quit working.

Could we all just agree to not offer that kind of thing as advice? 
Removing dependencies is an awful habit that's going to cause things to 
break.  It's less work to simply disable NetworkManager, and less likely 
to cause a dependent package to fail.