[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699307: Bug#699307: network-manager-vpnc should mention network-manager-vpnc-gnome

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

thinking more about that, I think having some PackageKit magic in
network-manager-gnome would probably be a nice solution.
Pre-installing all VPN plugins is not really something I want to do in
the network-manager package.
Maybe we could list all VPN plugins in the Add dialog, even if they are
not installed. And PackageKit does the installation on demand.

Matthias, Dan, does something like sounds feasible?

Michael	


On 30.01.2013 03:31, Alex Brotman wrote:
> I guess my argument would be that somehow I ended up without the network-manager-vpnc-gnome package, so when clicking the Add button where I thought I'd be able to add a VPN connection, I received no feedback that anything was missing.  Perhaps something in /usr/share/doc/ to point someone there, or maybe something in the package description.  I wasn't suggesting that the package dependencies/recommends be altered.
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> ________________________________
>  From: Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> To: Alexander Tait Brotman <atbrotman at yahoo.com>; 699307 at bugs.debian.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699307: network-manager-vpnc should mention network-manager-vpnc-gnome
>  
> On 30.01.2013 02:59, Alexander Tait Brotman wrote:
>> Package: network-manager-vpnc
>> Version: 0.9.4.0-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> I was trying to setup a Cisco VPN to use with my workplace, and I found that clicking to add a VPN
>> through the GUI resulted in nothing being displayed.  There was no error message or additional information.
>> Upon installing network-manager-vpnc-gnome, clicking the Add button enabled the set of windows to add the
>> VPN setup to my network-manager options.  I didn't see any mention of this package in the documentation 
>> for the network-manager-vpnc package.  I also did not see it in the package description.  Could there be
>> some mention in the docs, or perhaps even suggest to the user to install the package when that Add button
>> doesn't find the required package to be installed.
> 
> network-manager-gnome suggets the various network-manager-$(VPN)-gnome
> components.
> The -gnome VPN bits are not required if you e.g. use the KDE gui client,
> so adding those to the network-manager-vpnc package description seems wrong.



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