sorry i can't provide how error was looked (because this was long time ago) but i have this entries in my ebuild ## original ## if ! use networkmanager; then rm -rv files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/network@cinnamon.org || die fi ## my ebuild ## if ! use networkmanager; then rm -rv files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/network@cinnamon.org || die sed -i 's/nm-applet;//' \ files/usr/share/cinnamon-session/sessions/cinnamon*.session || die fi Thanks.
networkmanager seems likely to be mandatory rather than a use flag for cinnamon going forwards anyways, so nothing to do here.
Created attachment 507042 [details, diff] cinnamon-3.6.0-optional-networkmanager.patch Alexandre Rostovtsev's patch can be optimized for 3.6.0 I don't know all this magic, only had optimize lines like "@@ -81,7 +81,40 @@" Other cinnamon ebuilds can handle network-manager option (enable/disable) Now I'm on cinnamon 3.6 without network-manager installed and all works fine Thanks