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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7783333.T7Z3S40VBb@peak> (raw)

Afternoon all,

I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared last 
week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I neither need 
nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage insists on plasma-
meta-5.18.5. (Why?) If I unmask it, network-manager insists on wifi ( wext ? 
Wifi ) even though there's no such hardware on this machine.

For the moment I've excluded plasma-meta from the -e @world, which seems to be 
doing the job.

Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells and 
whistles that are unwanted, and even actively disliked. Already I've been 
obliged to install encryption and LVM, neither of which I want; where is it 
going to end?

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-30 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-30 17:44 Peter Humphrey [this message]
2020-05-30 18:02 ` [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now? tastytea
2020-05-30 18:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-05-30 21:46   ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-30 22:16     ` Neil Bothwick
2020-05-30 22:34       ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-30 23:19         ` Michael
2020-05-31  1:54           ` Dale
2020-05-31  8:42           ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-31 11:37         ` Neil Bothwick
2020-05-30 18:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-05-30 18:49   ` Mark Knecht
2020-05-31  8:43 ` [gentoo-user] " tastytea
2020-05-31  9:29   ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-31  9:37     ` Ashley Dixon
2020-05-31  9:56       ` Peter Humphrey

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