100763 – baselayout should have USE flag "wifi"

Bug 100763 - baselayout should have USE flag "wifi"

Summary: baselayout should have USE flag "wifi"

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Roy Marples (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-07-29 16:03 UTC by csights
Modified:	2005-07-29 19:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description csights 2005-07-29 16:03:42 UTC

Baselayout should use the USE flag "wifi" and (if set) depend on some wireless
configuration utility (maybe a virtual depend) such as
"net-wireless/wireless-tools" or some other.

This way baselayout can specify which version of the wireless tools it depends
on:  e.g. baselayout-1.11.13 appears to depend on wireless-tools-27-r1 rather
than wireless-tools-27 (perhaps because of relocation of iwconfig and others
from /usr/sbin to /sbin)

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-29 19:24:57 UTC

This is not going to happen.

wpa_supplicant does not require wireless-tools.
wireless-tools does not require wpa_supplicant.

The two are not compatible in any way or form.
So a generic wifi flag is not going to work.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-07-29 19:34:26 UTC

not to mention that some people can use their wireless nic w/out either :)