Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Here you go. I make no claims as to its suitability, or even > > uptodatedness > > ---8> > > Many thanks. After writing that I had another go using a different > approach, and it just fell into place. Combining your set and mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 10:37:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE > > flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setting it as you say did the trick > > - thanks. > Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE flag > - > it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setting it as you say did the trick - thanks. Are you sure it doesn't appear in use.desc ? It does on my system;

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:43:54 BST tastytea wrote: > Setting USE="-networkmanager -wireless" in /etc/portage/make.conf should > fix that. Adding -wifi is probably a good idea too. I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread tastytea
On 2020-05-30 18:44+0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, […] Setting USE="-networkmanager -wireless" in /etc/portage/make.conf should fix that. Adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:19:21 BST Michael wrote: --->8 > Admittedly, like you I have also installed LVM which I don't want/need on > its own. It is pulled in by sys-fs/cryptsetup, needed by pmount, which I > use and may want to use with encrypted filesystems in the future. I'm not > sure if

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > in this case

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > > in this case "Merge this to

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > in this case "Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If you > > > don't want the kitchen

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > in this case "Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If you > > don't want the kitchen sink, don't use meta packages. I have a kde > > set in /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:08:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > > neither need nor want. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage > insists on plasma-

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread tastytea
On 2020-05-30 18:44+0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and > portage insists on

[gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage insists on plasma- meta-5.18.5. (Why?) If I unmask it,