How to remove wpa_supplicant without removing NetworkManager after switching to iwd

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hey there, so yeah zypper rm wpa_supplicant also wants to remove the whole NetworkManager stack

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Seems like in that case, don’t remove it. It takes about 7 MB on disk, so shouildn’t be a big deal to leave it until the dependency is removed, if that’s planned.

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Is there a way to declare the dependency as required only if iwd isn’t installed?

Something like:
Requires: wpa_supplicant >= 0.6.4 or iwd (i know that doesn’t work that way, I don’t know the real rpm spec code sorry)
instead of
Requires: wpa_supplicant >= 0.6.4

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Why remove it??

(It’s a core component for securely connecting to wireless networks).

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as said in the title, i switched the wifi backend to iwd

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That would be a question for the packager to answer - they’ve determined the dependencies, and while you can force a removal that breaks dependencies, it’s not recommended.

There really isn’t a reason to remove it even if you switch the backend. I wouldn’t worry about it.

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Yes, there is. Which is not the problem.

  • just changing package does not mean that installation without wpa_supplicant is supported and works out-of-the-box. At the very least something needs to set iwd as the WiFi backend in NetworkManager.
  • there are several options that affect NetworkManager-iwd interaction. It is completely unclear what values should be chosen as default on distribution level.
  • someone would need to handle bug reports resulting from using iwd as compared to wpa_supplicant.

If you volunteer to implement this and handle bug reports - by all means, prepare SR and convince maintainers to accept it.

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