I see two things missing from this resolution: 1. GNOME has a stronger dependency on NM than they did when Squeeze was released. GNOME Shell now has a hard dependency on NM.
> The user has to take separate, explicit (and somewhat unusual for the > average user) action to disable network-manager after it has been > installed. 2. Yes, but it is also unusual for the average user to need to disable NM. For the average user, the consequences of not having NM are quite a bit worse than the benefits of being able to set up networking by hand. It's definitely possible to disable NM and the procedure to do this could easily be release-noted. Just my 2 cents, Jeremy Bicha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org