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. -M.