Comment 37 for bug 357395

6 months ago, John Lenton wrote:

> right now the sync daemon depends on network manager. The dependency
> can be removed, or the sync daemon should make its dependency
> explicit.
>
> I vote for the former.

And nothing has happened, the problem still exists. While I would like to have Ubuntu One working without the Network Manager, could it please have an explicit dependency added for now? It took me at least an hour to find this out, because there is not even a error message, it just fails silently.