Re: connman does not respect /etc/network/interfaces when upgrading from buster to bullseye and more general considerations

Am 23.09.21 um 20:17 schrieb Holger Wansing:

> I have just installed an LXDE system to test this, and now adding
> network-manager-gnome, installs 24 new packages, taking 39 MB of additional
> disk space, according to the apt-get output 
I might consider splitting off network-manager's /usr/share/locale into 
an (optional, Recommends/Suggests) network-manager-l10n package. The 
locales take up about 8,5 MB of disk space.
While I don't necessarily think that 8,5 MB are actually that much of an 
issue for desktop installations, trimming down the on disk footprint 
might make network-manager more suitable for more constrained environments.

There is also a (somewhat stale) MR [1] for network-manager asking for 
the individual plugins to be split into separate packages to make it 
possible to trim down the dependency chain.

If there is real demand for it, we could revisit that.


Michael

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/merge_requests/4