Bug 266914

Summary:	net-misc/networkmanager: make ppp-manager support conditional
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven E. <dark>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) <steev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dagger, jieryn, nirbheek, pacho, spatz
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610722
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven E. 2009-04-20 22:43:19 UTC

networkmanager forces me to install net-dialup/ppp for no obvious reason.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to emerge networkmanager
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Actual Results:  
networkmanager pulls in unneeded net-dialup/ppp

Expected Results:  
a clean networkmanager update without unwanted bloat.

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-20 22:47:27 UTC

don't touch fields you don't know the effect of, thanks. Btw, I tried removing ppp support in my effort on bug #263397 and it prooved to be deeply intricated in current code (or at least too much for the spare time I had on it).

Comment 2 Sven E. 2009-04-20 23:12:26 UTC

I am aware that this is certainly not your fault - I just couldn't believe the nm devs were insane enough to make ppp stuff mandatory for nm and assumed just some USE flag was mising - sorry for that.
I'll try to look into it, maybe there is a way to get rid of the dependency or make it optional, otherwise upstream needs to get contacted.

Comment 3 Sven E. 2009-04-21 01:29:23 UTC

Okay, so nm has a 'ppp-manager' module, and this could be compiled conditionally - of course there are some changes in the source needed too.
Unfortunately I am not able to compile networkmanager manually as in doing a  configure & make  after unpacking the source ...

Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-02-24 16:18:19 UTC

Just fixed by upstream :-D

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-01-29 10:07:06 UTC

This is fixed already