On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:57:42 +0100 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote: > > > NM is a Gnome application. > > Are you sure? IMO it is not a gnome only tool although it is > developed by gnome > https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/NetworkManager.html > That's what I mean. It was developed to be a standard component of Gnome. I know it's not Gnome-only, because I use it with Xfce on my laptops. I use a number of Gnome and KDE applications without having installed either DE, by which I mean software developed by the Gnome and KDE projects and dependent on their metapackages and generally some of their libraries. My point was that as a dependency of Gnome (via network-manager-gnome) it will be installed with a standard Gnome installation, and information about network interfaces will *not* be written to /e/n/i. Cinnamon is something of a Gnome clone, and while I have never used it, I would expect it to depend on pretty much the same accessories as Gnome does. If the metapackage was uninstalled, I would expect it to pull out the dependencies also, unless separately manually installed. Am I wrong? -- Joe
