Network Manager dependencies

[Dale Amon]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:40:58PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> prefer to stay away from it, preference perhaps? But with preference
> comes the problem that NM relies on wpasupplicant and a couple of
> other wireless tools that we would absolutely never need on a server,
> unless we are crazy or there is some one-off sysadmin who has some
> crazy ideas.

I agree for the most part... although there are appliances that
use mobile phone connection as a sysadmin emergency back door
to get at servers if the host facility backbone is down.