Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> Hello list, > > I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop and I want to install wicd in > place of the manually configured network, rather than installing the > standard network setup and then ripping it out again to put wicd in its > place. > > The problem is that wicd insists* on a gtk interface, which would force > me to install X etc. before the first boot, so that wicd could enable me > to fetch all the sources. > > Is there any way to get a CLI version of wicd installed? > > * It really insists: even USE=-gtk emerge -pv wicd still throws the same > error about missing config parameters in some X package. wicd is designed for laptops and mobile computers. Once you see that it's features are quite overkill for desktops (and complete overkill for servers), then this is apparent. Instead, why don't you just let baselayout get on with adding the 20 extra characters that go into /etc/conf.d/net to get you a working interface, build stuff, then add wicd later? wicd is not in any sane @system or default @world, it's simply a very useful tool for laptops. But by no means required and easily left till last. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
