Bug 471362 – USE="networkmanager" should select kde-misc/networkmanagement when USE="wifi"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jim Faulkner 2013-05-26 20:20:27 UTC]

I have both the "wifi" and "networkmanager" use flags set, and am using the amd64/13.0/desktop/kde profile.  After emerging kde-meta, the network management applet kde-misc/networkmanagement isn't available.  It is intuitive that wifi users would want network management to be available on their desktop.  Also, it is a waste of time to make everyone google for the applet name, especially when "emerge --search networkmanager" doesn't show kde-misc/networkmanagement.

Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.11.62 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.9.3 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-3.9.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3537U_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     8024868 total,   2581212 free
KiB Swap:   16123200 total,  16123196 free
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3, 4.7.2-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-11.x"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core-avx-i -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core-avx-i -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=core-avx-i -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=core-avx-i -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l 4.0"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dell dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kipi laptop lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad matroska mbox mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl offensive ogg openconnect opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wifi wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-32 efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2013-05-26 20:53:16 UTC]

kde-meta and the other kde metapackages are only for pulling in packages from the core KDE SC (all of which are in kde-base/, and networkmanagement is in kde-misc), which is why it's not there presently. That said, I do agree that networkmanagement could be more clearly indicated. The other problem is that this isn't appropriate to add this as a DEPEND/RDEPEND to a non-meta package since this isn't even a runtime-only dep. Perhaps an elog would be appropriate, or we could reconsider our meta-package rules. Rest of KDE team: thoughts? I could also live with a kde-utilities kind of meta package with all sorts of USE flags, but I don't think we have enough of said packages to make it worthwhile.

[Comment 2 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-05-26 21:21:11 UTC]

Its already described in the official wiki: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager

[Comment 3 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2013-05-27 10:17:33 UTC]

(In reply to Chris Reffett from comment #1)
> or we could reconsider our meta-package rules.
Yes please! We already have plenty of meta USE flags which break our "meta is only for X" rule, and I think it does add a lot to the user experience.

[Comment 4 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-07-25 22:05:17 UTC]

We decided in the meeting.
1.) add networkmanager use flag to pull in kde-misc/networkmanagement 
2.) add bluetooth use flag to pull in net-wireless/bluedevil

We decided not on which (meta-)package. Another idea which came in my mind after the meeting, to add the flag to kde-base/solid-runtime.

[Comment 5 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-09-15 14:05:56 UTC]

(In reply to Johannes Huber from comment #4)
> We decided in the meeting.
> 1.) add networkmanager use flag to pull in kde-misc/networkmanagement 
> 2.) add bluetooth use flag to pull in net-wireless/bluedevil
> 
> We decided not on which (meta-)package. Another idea which came in my mind
> after the meeting, to add the flag to kde-base/solid-runtime.

Thanks for reporting. This is fixed in cvs and git now. Please sync in some hours to get the change.

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+  15 Sep 2013; Johannes Huber <[e-mail]> solid-runtime-4.11.1.ebuild:
+  Add optional RDEPENDS wrt bug #471362.
+

[Comment 6 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-09-15 14:07:21 UTC]

*** Bug 484824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-09-15 14:07:53 UTC]

*** Bug 484744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***