Comment 38 for bug 357395

I don't have NetworkManager installed neither at home nor at the office.

At home I use WICD instead because NetworkManager can't properly handle standby mode when using WiFi connection.
At the office I manually configure /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/network/interfaces.

In my mind an implicit (and any kind of) dependency on NetworkManager is a bad design decision. Other internet/network dependent applications (web browsers, chats and messengers, torrents, FTP/SSH, synaptic, network/db servers, .............) don't care what connection manager I use and whether it is in use at all.