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I have a workstation (not a laptop) installed with the Fedora Workstation flavor. I am connected to a permanent network and I never have a captive portal between me and the network. However NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora-0.9.10.1-3.20150219git.fc21.x86_64 is force installed (trying to uninstall it wants to remove gnome-shell among other things. Sometimes the network may be flaky (routing to the sute used for checking is, everything else works fine), when that happens a huge fullscreen window appearts and shows me some Gnome asvertizing. The package should be uninstallable. I do not need it and its behavior is annoying/wrong as it can *never* be useful in my setup (no capitve portals in my opwn home).
Just to make it clear the website is unreachable and I get this thing popping up every freaking 300 seconds (every time it checks). This makes no sense, test *at least* 2 different sites on 2 completely different carriers if you want to have a chance of detecting something with reasonable certainity all connectivity is down.
It's worse than every 300s for me. It got into a loop and started popping up multiple times per second.
gnome-shell and fedora-release-workstation in f21 both require the NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora package: $ repoquery -q --whatrequires NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora.x86_64 fedora-release-workstation-0:21-2.noarch gnome-shell-0:3.14.2-1.fc21.x86_64 gnome-shell-0:3.14.3-1.fc21.x86_64 The requirement in fedora-release-workstation is reasonable if that's what the workstation people want in their product (it's simple enough to replace fedora-release-workstation with fedora-release-nonproduct if you don't agree with the workstation product's configuration.) But the requirement in gnome-shell is totally unnecessary, and relegates all gnome users to this captive portal "feature" even when it's totally unwarranted. I'm re-assigning this bug to gnome-shell, in hope that the maintainers will remove the Requires from gnome-shell and let users who don't want this functionality and don't run the workstation product uninstall NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora.
(In reply to Rich Mattes from comment #3) > I'm re-assigning this bug to gnome-shell, in hope that the maintainers will > remove the Requires from gnome-shell and let users who don't want this > functionality and don't run the workstation product uninstall > NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora. I rather prefer you clones it there, as this bug reveals 2 issues really. 1. dependency issue (minor) 2. the detection system is totally broken and need to be fixed before it can be made mandatory The second one is more important and need to stay on NetworkManger's people radar. Is it ok to cloen it from gnome-shell and move it back ?
Absolutely. I was keying off of the "The package should be uninstallable." sentence in your initial report. Both issues warrant bugs against their respective components.
It looks like rdieter fixed the problem outlined in this bug's title in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624239 OK to close this now?
(In reply to Rich Mattes from comment #6) > It looks like rdieter fixed the problem outlined in this bug's title in > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624239 > > OK to close this now? To clarify, the dependency from within gnome-shell was removed, so you can uninstall it as long as you don't have fedora-release-workstation installed. You still can't uninstall it if you're running the workstation product.
(In reply to Rich Mattes from comment #6) > It looks like rdieter fixed the problem outlined in this bug's title in > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624239 > > OK to close this now? No, as you noted fedora-release-workstation still pins it.
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I'm reopening this since I don't think this got a satisfactory resolution. I think the point of splitting the config to a separate package is to enable users who don't want this feature to be able to easily disable the feature by removing the package. Currently, uninstalling NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora uninstalls fedora-release-workstation. Please make fedora-release-workstation's dependency on the connectivity package weak or optional. It also might make it easier for GNOME's Settings>Privacy panel to enable or disable this feature: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/737362
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #11) > I'm reopening this since I don't think this got a satisfactory resolution. > > I think the point of splitting the config to a separate package is to enable > users who don't want this feature to be able to easily disable the feature > by removing the package. > > Currently, uninstalling NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora uninstalls > fedora-release-workstation. > > Please make fedora-release-workstation's dependency on the connectivity > package weak or optional. > > It also might make it easier for GNOME's Settings>Privacy panel to enable or > disable this feature: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/737362 The fedora-release-workstation package exists solely for defining the branding that is Fedora Workstation Edition. What this means is that if you remove the NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora package, you are no longer running Fedora Workstation; you are running a customized Fedora release of your own design. So by tying this package to fedora-release-workstation, we are making it so that removing this package ensures that the machine no longer reports itself as Workstation Edition.
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Once again, I'm reopening this. There are proposed patches on the GNOME bug (an has been shipped in Ubuntu since 17.10) but it's blocked because GNOME Design doesn't see sufficient justification for this feature. Maybe someone interested in this issue can try to answer Design's questions. I tried.
Let me reassign to gnome-control-center since once the switch is added, it will be possible to disable the connectivity check without uninstalling any packages. (It uses a new D-Bus method in NetworkManager.)
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
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