On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:15:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. However, these decisions are taken upstream, where there is a tendency of convergence to monoculture.
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