640780 – www-client/firefox-57: No way(?) to avoid NetworkManager dependency

Bug 640780 - www-client/firefox-57: No way(?) to avoid NetworkManager dependency

Summary: www-client/firefox-57: No way(?) to avoid NetworkManager dependency

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Low minor
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2017-12-11 23:06 UTC by Herménégilde Valentin
Modified:	2017-12-12 18:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Herménégilde Valentin 2017-12-11 23:06:11 UTC

Created attachment 509554 [details]
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With firefox-57.0.1 there is no way that I found to avoid merging networkmanager as a dependency. The ebuild makes me think that it is impossible:

www-client/firefox/firefox-57.0.1.ebuild :

`
MOZCONFIG_OPTIONAL_WIFI=1

inherit check-reqs flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs eutils gnome2-utils mozconfig-v6.57 [...]
`

eclass/mozconfig-v6.57.eclass :

`if [[ -n ${MOZCONFIG_OPTIONAL_WIFI} ]]; then
        if [[ ${MOZCONFIG_OPTIONAL_WIFI} = "enabled" ]]; then
                IUSE+=" +wifi"
        else
                IUSE+=" wifi"
        fi
        RDEPEND+="
        wifi? (
                kernel_linux? ( >=sys-apps/dbus-0.60
                        >=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72
                        net-misc/networkmanager )
        )"
fi
`

This is quite annoying since networkmanager breaks wpa_supplicant

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2017-12-11 23:09:17 UTC

NM is only required if you set USE=wifi.

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2017-12-12 18:01:42 UTC

Solution right there in front of you.