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
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