Vincent Caron wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:18 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Vincent Caron wrote: >>> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 00:11 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> Vincent Caron wrote: >>>>> Package: network-manager >>>>> Version: 0.6.6-2 >>>>> Severity: minor >>>>> >>>>> The bundled /usr/bin/nm-vpn-properties is a gnome application. >>>> You are aware that network-manager and network-manager-gnome are >>>> different source packages? >>> Er, no... What does it imply ? Sorry for the lack of understanding... >> It means, that it's technically not possible to move nm-vpn-propertiers >> to the network-manager-gnome package, as it is built from a completely >> different source tarball. > > I get it. Then it looks like the network-manager package has no > dependencies on GTK+ & co - which I thought is okay, expecting that > 'network-manager' was a GUI-independent package, and the *-gnome > variant its obvious Gnome incarnation. > > Maybe I read the package deps completely wrong, sorry if it is the > case.
No, you are right, the network-manager package has no GNOME dependencies although it ships nm-vpn-properties, a GNOME application. This is actually a bit of a hack. The monolithic NetworkManager source tarball was split into a core part and GUI/GNOME part in version 0.6.5. Unfortunately nm-vpn-properties remained in the core network-manager package. We had the option to split nm-vpn-properties into yet another package, make the network-manager binary package depend on GNOME libs, or cheat a little and exclude the GNOME dependencies from network-manager. We chose the last option. We assumed, that anyone using nm-vpn-properties will also use nm-applet from network-manager-gnome, which will pull in all the necessary dependencies. Another reason was, that in the upcoming 0.7 release, nm-vpn-properties will be dropped from the network-manager core package, so a separate binary package seemed like a bit of overkill. And making the network-manager binary depend on GNOME libs was also not an option, given that it is used by KDE only desktops. Hope this clarifies the situation a bit. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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