RE: Unable to connect to my home wireless


I hoped at least the first part of the mail would be helpful
to someone having
the same problem. I found a few posts with the same error
during the last, but
no answer so far.

IMO complaints should go to bugs.debian.org,
not necessarily here.

Noted.

Th.

In Thomas' defense, I noticed the same thing and had much the same reaction.

The Squeeze KDE 4.4 update this week pulled down network-manager as a dependency. In my case I much prefer wicd to handle my wireless.

The update had them both running simultaneously, which I didn't like at all. I was plugged into my wired network, which wicd had set up as default, and network-manger connected to one of the wireless networks I had configured. Both interfaces up, even two default routes. Yuk.

I didn't like the fact that the KDE update ignored my current install of wicd to install network-manager, and when I purged network-manager KDE worked (and continues to work) just fine.

So the "dependency" on network-manager seems to be merely a preference of the KDE team. To me that means I should not have seen network-manager if I already had wicd installed. This is very similar to the various packages that insist they need avahi-daemon to work, and yet purging avahi-daemon doesn't break anything not using mDNS.

So while Thomas could file a bug, I don't think it's not germane to complain about DDs putting everything under the sun into a dependency list. Here's the place for the community to decide whether we really need to force an install of network-manager (or avahi) when they're not really needed, or decide that because some cases might require it everyone should have it.

Anyway, just my 2c

James

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