--- /var/pms/portage/gnome-extra/cinnamon-control-center/cinnamon-control-center-2.2.11.ebuild
+++ /var/pms/overlay/local/gnome-extra/cinnamon-control-center/cinnamon-control-center-2.2.11.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="+colord +cups input_devices_wacom socialweb"
+IUSE="+colord +cups input_devices_wacom networkmanager socialweb"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
 
 # False positives caused by nested configure scripts
@@ -30,12 +30,9 @@
 	>=gnome-extra/cinnamon-desktop-1.0:0=
 	>=gnome-extra/cinnamon-menus-1.0:0=
 	>=gnome-extra/cinnamon-settings-daemon-1.0:0=
-	>=gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.9.8
 	media-libs/fontconfig
 	>=media-libs/libcanberra-0.13[gtk3]
 	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-1.1[glib]
-	net-misc/modemmanager
-	>=net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.9[modemmanager]
 	>=sys-auth/polkit-0.103
 	|| ( >=sys-power/upower-0.9.1:= sys-power/upower-pm-utils )
 	>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.23.0:2
@@ -49,6 +46,10 @@
 		>=dev-libs/libwacom-0.7
 		>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.8:3
 		>=x11-libs/libXi-1.2 )
+	networkmanager? (
+		>=gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.9.8
+		net-misc/modemmanager
+		>=net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.9[modemmanager] )
 	socialweb? ( net-libs/libsocialweb )
 
 "
@@ -86,6 +87,8 @@
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.2.5-optional.patch
 	# fix wrong nm-applet dependency
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.2.5-nm-applet.patch
+	# make networkmananger optional
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/allow_optional_nm.patch
 
 	epatch_user