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* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 12/12/06, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
