new NetworkManager dependencies?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 13:15:53 -0500,
   Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:56:42 -0800
>Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
>> It's less work to simply disable NetworkManager, and less likely
>> to cause a dependent package to fail.
>
>Not when "disable" is apparently only a mild suggestion that
>has no actual effect :-). Apparently the word which actually
>means "disable" is "mask".

I run with NM disabled on systems where I am not using wireless and it seems 
to work fine.