Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

[German <gentgerman@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote:
> > > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces.
> > > What   
> > package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or 
> > command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are
> > welcome. Thanks
> > > 
> > >   
> > 
> > net-misc/networkmanager
> > 
> > It comes with CLI tools but it's usually used with a frontend GUI. See 
> > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager#NetworkManager_GUI_bits_in_GTK
> > 
> > For KDE I use kde-misc/plasma-nm. If you don't have a desktop it
> > propably makes more sense to just use wpa_supplicant directly.
> 
> wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless
> interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be
> NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage.
> 
> Alternatively, you could just set up the two interfacs
> in /etc/conf.d/net and switch between them by starting and
> stopping /etc/init.d/net.{eth0,wlan0}.
> 
> It depends on how automatic you want it.

Ok, I tried to emerge networkmanger and it tries to pull a bunch of dependencies which I do not need, e.g. x11-proto, x11-libs. I already set use flag to -X because for now I will be happy with console mode, but it still tries to pull them. How do I tell portage not emerge unneeded dependencies? Thanks

> 
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