From cb60794f24e3187a44c3fbb9d0b6e8552e6af197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:58:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 681834 rra-draft-ijackson number paras --- .../rra-draft-ijackson | 22 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson b/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson index 5ef6076..3aa53eb 100644 --- a/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson +++ b/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ - The gnome-core metapackage is intended to reflect the core of the + 1. The gnome-core metapackage is intended to reflect the core of the GNOME desktop environment: the basic tools and subsystems that together constitute GNOME. The gnome metapackage is intended to reflect the broader desktop environment, including extra components and applications. - network-manager is the GNOME network control system, and is + 2. network-manager is the GNOME network control system, and is recommended for most GNOME users. Some Debian GNOME users don't like some of network-manager's behavior and prefer to instead use other tools, either basic ifupdown or other frameworks such as wicd. - In squeeze, the gnome metapackage lists network-manager in Recommends + 3. In squeeze, the gnome metapackage lists network-manager in Recommends but not Depends. In wheezy, currently, network-manager has moved from gnome to gnome-core, and from Recommends to Depends. This represents a substantially increased insistance that users of the GNOME @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ integration of network-manager into GNOME than was the case in squeeze. - If matters are left as they currently stand, users who have the gnome + 4. If matters are left as they currently stand, users who have the gnome metapackages installed but do not have network-manager installed will, in the process of upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (either due to an explicit decision to remove it or an implicit decision to not install @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ installed. It will also no longer be possible for users to install GNOME metapackages in wheezy without installing network-manager. - For most applications and components, the only drawback of this would + 5. For most applications and components, the only drawback of this would be some additional disk space usage, since the application, despite being installed, wouldn't need to be used. However, network-manager assumes that, if it is installed, it should attempt to manage the @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ average user) action to disable network-manager after it has been installed. - The Technical Committee believes that this will cause undesireable + 6. The Technical Committee believes that this will cause undesireable behavior for upgrades from squeeze, and (of somewhat lesser importance) will make it more difficult than necessary for GNOME users to swap network management components, something for which there @@ -48,21 +48,21 @@ moved from the gnome-core metapackage to the gnome metapackage (which is defined as including additional, optional components). - Please note that this is not a general statement about GNOME + 7. Please note that this is not a general statement about GNOME components. It is very specific to network-manager because all of the following apply: - 1. The package takes action automatically because it is installed, + (i) The package takes action automatically because it is installed, rather than being a component that can either be run or not at the user's choice. - 2. The package has historically been recommended rather than listed as + (ii) The package has historically been recommended rather than listed as a dependency, so existing Debian users are used to that behavior. - 3. There is both demonstrable, intentional widespread replacement of + (ii) There is both demonstrable, intentional widespread replacement of that package by Debian GNOME users and no significant loss of unrelated GNOME desktop functionality by replacing it with a different component. - If any of these points did not apply, the situation would be + 8. If any of these points did not apply, the situation would be significantly different. -- 2.39.5