On 15 May 2018 at 16:55, Michael Lampe <lampe at gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote: > Gnome's control-center now requires NetworkManager-wifi. But it's only a > soft requirement, no shared libs involved. > > To keep your workstation NM-free, you want to install a dummy package that > provides NetworkManager-wifi but actually contains nothing, ideally before > updating to 7.5. Here's a script to create such a dummy: > https://github.com/larsks/fakeprovide > > If you do this, control-center shows a sad face and some text (Oops, blah, > blah, ...) in the WiFi tab. Just the same you always got in the network tab > without NM. That's all. > Note that the 'network' service is considered legacy and gets just basic fixes. It's not been recommended to disable NetworkManager for years at this point. Unless you have a really tricky setup with openvswitch or something like that it's a bad idea to disable NetworkManager at this point in time. As yourself why you are doing it, and what you are really hoping to gain. Have a read of this to get a better grasp on NM: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/18