[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#497108: Bug#497108: /usr/bin/nm-vpn-properties belongs to the network-manager-gnome package

[Michael Biebl]

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

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