Bug 1853358

Summary:	drop dependency on nm-connection-editor
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Vladimir Benes <vbenes>
Component:	gnome-control-center	Assignee:	Carlos Garnacho <cgarnach>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	8.3	CC:	bberg, mclasen, thaller
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
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Description Vladimir Benes 2020-07-02 13:33:09 UTC

Description of problem:
c-c doesn't need nm-connection-editor anymore so we should drop dependency

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NM-1.26
gnome-control-center-3.28.2-19.el8.x86_64

Comment 1 Thomas Haller 2020-07-02 14:15:58 UTC

for context...


The issue is that originally gnome-control-center depends on nm-connection-editor, for certain advanced features.
In fact, that is resolved in the meantime (upstream) -- I think?

But since on a default installation both gnome-control-center and nm-connection-editor was installed, nm-connection-editor was hidden in Gnome (bug 1715143). That is to avoid confusing the users by having two GUIs for networking. On the other hand, nm-connection-editor has some advanced features, and it might make sense to use it.

Now, we are going to solve that by not installing nm-connection-editor by default (and gnome-control-center no longer depending on nm-c-e). Then, when a user installs nm-connection-editor, it's fair to assume that the user wants to use it, and we shall no longer hide it.


Related to this was also the split of libnma out of network-manager project (which originally provides libnma, nm-applet and nm-connection-editor). That is done in rhel-8.3 by the rebase to libnma-1.28.0+ and network-manager-applet-1.16.0+.



Slightly related is also Fedora 32 issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/881#note_732563 .
On Fedora 32 this is not yet done, due to issue#881. On Fedora 33, split that this rhbz requests, is planned to be completed.

Comment 3 Benjamin Berg 2021-01-11 15:48:23 UTC

Unfortunately, that is not true. We are still calling it from some panels, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1157

My take is, that this will definitely not happen for RHEL 8.x. And even for RHEL 9, it can only happen if the upstream issue is resolved. i.e. seems like a WONTFIX/CANTFIX to me.