networkmanager forces me to install net-dialup/ppp for no obvious reason. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to emerge networkmanager 2. 3. Actual Results: networkmanager pulls in unneeded net-dialup/ppp Expected Results: a clean networkmanager update without unwanted bloat.
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).
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.
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 ...
Just fixed by upstream :-D
This is fixed already
