Well, not Plasma's but mine for sure. I have been chasing my tail trying to reverse engineer processes/services/applications I do not want auto-running on a fresh Plasma installation and I'm fast losing the will to live.
I've installed plasma-meta plus some kde-apps meta packages as follows: kde-apps/kdeadmin-meta kde-apps/kdecore-meta kde-apps/kdegraphics-meta kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta kde-apps/kdenetwork-meta kde-apps/kdepim-meta kde-apps/kdeutils-meta kde-apps/kwalletmanager kde-frameworks/oxygen-icons kde-plasma/plasma-meta One of the above[1] brought in NetworkManager, which I don't use because for my use case there's nothing wrong with openrc netifrc scripts. When I plug in a USB wireless adaptor nothing happens since it stays dormant, although its LED illuminates. Then I enable it by starting 'net.wlp0s18f2u1' and at that point NM starts fighting over the wireless adaptor, resulting in the unpleasant phenomenon of dropping the connection every few minutes and changing its MAC address, consequently rendering it unusable with APs which implement ACL. [1] kde-plasma/plasma-meta requires kde-plasma/powerdevil, which requires kde- frameworks/networkmanager-qt, which requires net-misc/networkmanager, which requires net-misc/modemmanager So I naively thought, let's try stopping NM (note: the NetworkManager rc service is not set to run at any level, so something else is starting it). The moment I stop NM I find my logs being flooded with a storm of 'dbus failing to start obex', which bluez wants. Note: I have not started a bluetooth service, or tried running bluetootctl, and BTW rfkill shows the bluetooth adaptor is soft blocked anyway. So I now try to stop dbus and restart it, which results in losing access to any Plasma menu applications, so I can't launch any application. It may be worth mentioning when I leave alone NM and just disable the USB adaptor from openrc, I also lose access to launching KDE applications (the error message when trying to launch an app from a terminal mentions a Qt error). Could someone more knowledgeable in Plasma/KDE shenanigans please explain how I can end up with a workable USB wireless dongle, which I can enable/disable at will? -- Regards, Mick
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