NetworkManager missing after Snapshot-2026-02-07 install of Plasma, Budgie and Xfce

[pjolt]

Please confirm there isn't an open report for this issue

• I have searched through bug reports

Summary

After install from Snapshot-2026-02-07 ISO network-manager package is missing in Plasma, Budgie and Xfce. It is present and working in live enviroment during install.

Gnome is unaffected.

Steps to reproduce

1. Boot from Snapshot-2026-02-07 ISO in uefi mode
   In my case locale EN_GB, Location Stockholm and Keyboard Swedish but all else are default settings in setup
2. Verify that network is available, f.ex by opening plasma-nm applet, Firefox or nmcli in terminal
3. Start install and reboot after install is completed
4. Open plasma-nm applet, Firefox or nmcli in terminal verify no connection available

Expected result

NetworkManager installed, running and able to access internet

Actual result

Environment

• Is system up to date?

Repo

Polaris (stable)

Desktop Environment

Plasma, Budgie, Xfce

System details

Other comments

eopkg.log from /var/log below
I can't look in journalctl or install network-manager either due to sudo permission missing which has been reported as separate issue.

• Host is Solus/Plasma fully up-to date as of todays date and ISO installed with qemu/virt-manager
• Let me know if there is anything else i can provide to help diagnose this
• Hopefully i'm missing something obvious with this but i cant figure out a root cause here.

[pjolt]

Upon further testing i experience the same issue on Budgie and Xfce and not only Plasma, i have updated original report above accordingly.
Gnome is unaffected as in network-manager is installed and available after reboot.

[TraceyC77]

@joebonrichie mentioned this is likely caused by recent sub-packaging