With kde-plasma/plasma-nm-5.4.2 has been added a RDEPEND to plasma-workspace[systemmonitor] (which wasn't there for plasma-nm-5.4.1). However, this package provides the very useful program "kde5-nm-connection-editor" that we may want to have without installing plasma-workspace and its dependencies (inc. kwin). It would be great to have a useflag to removes the RDEPEND to plasma-workspace (maybe "minimal"?) from plasma-nm. Reproducible: Always
I'd support this if it's at all achievable. The new RDEPEND requiring plasma-workspace to have +systemmonitor is also bad news for those who _are_ using plasma-workspace, but don't want qtwebkit and ruby dragged in. That's a pretty punitive hard dependency chain and, for myself at least, is likely to lead me to abandon plasma-nm.
(In reply to Robin Bankhead from comment #1) > I'd support this if it's at all achievable. The new RDEPEND requiring > plasma-workspace to have +systemmonitor is also bad news for those who _are_ > using plasma-workspace, but don't want qtwebkit and ruby dragged in. That's > a pretty punitive hard dependency chain and, for myself at least, is likely > to lead me to abandon plasma-nm. The dependency is in place because plasma-nm uses the systemmonitor dataengine provided by plasma-workspace[systemmonitor].
(In reply to Robin Bankhead from comment #1) > I'd support this if it's at all achievable. The new RDEPEND requiring > plasma-workspace to have +systemmonitor is also bad news for those who _are_ > using plasma-workspace, but don't want qtwebkit and ruby dragged in. That's > a pretty punitive hard dependency chain and, for myself at least, is likely > to lead me to abandon plasma-nm. Fortunately the systemmonitor USE flag will no longer be required in Plasma 5.5 as we can shift the Qt5WebKit option into libksysguard directly.
Is systemmonitor able to build standalone, without too much of a mess?
Is there still interest in this? It's not too hard to hide the applet installation and plasma-workspace dependency behind !minimal, but there's still fairly substantial Qt and KF5 deps.
On my setup I'm using a few kde apps, so I already have the regular framework dependencies, but nothing related to plasma. I would be very sad to have to install all the plasma-workspace stuff just to have a convenient dialog to configure networkmanager.
Created attachment 452310 [details, diff] plasma-nm-5.8.3-minimal.patch This patch (for plasma-nm-5.8.3) adds minimal use flag which: - removes RDPEND on kde-plasma/plasma-workspace - drop installation of the plasmoid
This is going to be 'solved' in Plasma 5.11 by upstream dropping the legacy connection editor. So you'll need to find a different solution I'm afraid. The replacement (also in plasma-nm) is the KCM module: $ kcmshell5 kcm_networkmanagement https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-nm.git/commit/?id=f997b4512eda6946e2ff04ff5c02ab1d1ee888bb
Thanks a lot for the update. As kcm_networkmanagement is still part of plasma-nm, then I guess its "minimal" distribution without plasma dependency still makes sense, doesn't it?
Is that kcm still useful for you?
I'm still using it (with the minimal patch), as I haven't found any suitable replacement.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=d17c0e7e8c7adff88c58a3adabfef8353ab1672e commit d17c0e7e8c7adff88c58a3adabfef8353ab1672e Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-21 23:55:24 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-21 23:55:24 +0000 kde-plasma/plasma-nm: Swap plasma-workspace RDEPEND with kde-cli-tools This reduces dependencies for people who really only want to use the KCM. At the same time provide pkg_postinst message for the unlikely event that someone tries to install plasma-nm by accident. kcmshell5 is provided by kde-cli-tools, which was previously pulled in by plasma-workspace. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/562838 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.20, Repoman-2.3.6 kde-plasma/plasma-nm/plasma-nm-5.11.95.ebuild | 12 +++++++++++- kde-plasma/plasma-nm/plasma-nm-5.12.49.9999.ebuild | 12 +++++++++++- kde-plasma/plasma-nm/plasma-nm-9999.ebuild | 12 +++++++++++- 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
