Bug 250034

Summary:	net-misc/networkmanager has no wifi use flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas M. Gastal <jgastal>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) <steev>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	dagger, rbu, serkan
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonas M. Gastal 2008-12-06 16:09:01 UTC

net-misc/networkmanager has no wifi use flag and depends on net-wireless/wireless-tools and net-wireless/wpa_suplicant.

I understand that most people want wifi, but why not add the wifi flag so that people who are installing networkmangaer in desktop systems without wifi don't have to install useless packages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add -wifi to USE flags in make.conf
2. run "emerge -av networkmanager"

Actual Results:  
asked to install net-wireless/wireless-tools and net-wireless/wpa_suplicant

Expected Results:  
should take into account -wifi flag and not depend on net-wireless/wireless-tools and net-wireless/wpa_suplicant

Comment 1 Robert Piasek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-07 09:36:22 UTC

Hi Jonas,

I'm afraid NetworkManager is universal network daemon and it's design to completely manage your network connections with main focus on wireless networks. USE flags are designed to enable or disable optional components. Unfortunately above packages are build/run time dependencies and are mandatory to build/run.

If you try to build networkmanager without the above packages you will get build errors:

checking Linux Wireless Extensions >= 18... no
configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional

Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-07 13:50:18 UTC

As pointed out by Robert, we cannot make requirements so deep in the design optional. Your concern would be best addressed upstream.

Thanks for your bug report.

Comment 3 Jonas M. Gastal 2008-12-07 17:55:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

Thanks for the answers, I'll inquire upstream about removing these as dependecies.