On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:08:35 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > I decided to establish a firm, clean system to fall back to after messing > > about with the various wifi packages, so I built a fresh system building > > on the merged-usr stage-3. I was surprised to find that kde-plasma/ > > powerdevil now insists on installing Network Manager unless I set USE=- > > wireless against it. > > > > Why has this happened? Can't the poor power devil cope with any other way > > of running WiFi? > > The USE="wireless" flag on powerdevil is needed to save energy when the > bluetooth/wireless chip is idle. This function could be useful with laptops > running on battery. > > If you set USE="-networkmanager" in make.conf and USE="-wireless" for the > powerdevil package you won't be bothered by this again.
I already had USE="-networkmanager" in make.conf. This is not a laptop and it has no battery. Nowhere on the system is there any hint to the contrary, so I still think this has not been thought through. The logic should have included alternatives to Network Manager. -- Regards, Peter.
