Re: knetworkmanager on gentoo

[Rod <rod erinktech fuse net>]

John Eckhart wrote:
> Rod,
>    I think the most likely problem is that you are emerging 
> net-misc/networkmanager with the gnome use flag enabled, which 
> includes the gnome specific additions to network manager.
>
> Try overriding the gnome use flag for networkmanager and check again: 
> (as root)
> mkdir -p /etc/portage
> echo "net-misc/networkmanager -gnome" >> /etc/portage/package.use
> emerge -va networkmanager
>
> If this doesn't help then the networkmanager probably has some gnome 
> specific code bleeding into the base code, but that seems unlikely.
>
> John
>
> On 12/12/06, *Darren Albers* <dalbers gmail com 
> <mailto:dalbers gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/12/06, Rod <rod erinktech fuse net
>     <mailto:rod erinktech fuse net>> wrote:
>     >
>     > I expected the combination of kde-misc/knetworkmanager and
>     > net-misc/networkmanager to use some gnome-specific libs but not
>     bring in
>     > the entire desktop. Is this a gentoo/portage issue?
>     >
>     > Again, am I trying to travel down a road that has not been
>     plowed yet?
>     >
>     > Rod
>
>     I am not a Gentoo user but it does sound like a portage issue.   In
>     other distro's Network-Manager has been divided into the core system
>     (called Network-Manager in Debian) and the front-end (called
>     Network-Manager-Gnome and KNetworkManager/network-manager-KDE in
>     Debian).   It sounds like whoever maintains that "package" (Sorry
>     don't know the proper Gentoo term) has created one monolithic package
>     rather than breaking it out so that KDE users can get the core without
>     the Gnome dependencies.
I have the gnome flag disabled globally, using a KDE desktop.

I found a link to a gentoo specific howto that mentions an additional 
overlay (sabayon). I'm trying to install it that way now.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511211-highlight-knetworkmanager.html

Thanks,
Rod