From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBD0E1382C5 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 17:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E27C7E0891; Sat, 30 May 2020 17:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CF6FE0867 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 17:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1jf5Wc-0006pC-OW for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 17:44:02 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now? Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100 Message-ID: <7783333.T7Z3S40VBb@peak> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03c-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: baff80c0-6db9-4344-8b60-d550afd20820 X-Archives-Hash: 86eae4f3fcea543bcc88d030aad1f5e2 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.