<html><body>+1 for this.<br><br>On all my computers I'm using openRC and wpa_supplicant to manage wifi connections and I don't plan to install Network Manager (nor systemd).<br><br>Marián<br><p>---------- Původní zpráva ----------<br>Od: Bernd Steinhauser <linux@bernd-steinhauser.de><br>Komu: plasma-devel@kde.org<br>Datum: 26. 5. 2015 10:16:52<br>Předmět: Dependency to Network Manager / kf5-NetworkManagerQt in
plasma-workspace</p><br><blockquote>Hi,<br><br>since the commit with the id 78c97fin plasma-workspace [1], it depends on <br>NetworkManagerQt and hence on Network Manager unconditionally. The use case <br>outlined in the commit is that the data engine tries to access wlan via network <br>manager to find out which hotspots are around and use that to get location <br>informations.<br>Now apart from the fact that I wouldn't want it to do that and that it couldn't <br>do it on my system, because it uses systemd-networkd for network configuration, <br>this results in a dependency on Network Manager.<br>I do understand that Martin when introducing this commit thought that most <br>systems running Plasma 5 will run Network Manager anyway, since that is a <br>preferred way of setting up network for many distributions. However, there are <br>many systems, that don't need and use Network Manager and possible don't want to <br>have it installed at all.<br>Aside from my desktop computer, examples could for example include workstations <br>at universities, which often have a static network setup (doesn't matter how <br>that is setup).<br><br>So the question is:<br>Could you make this feature, and therefore the dependency on Network Manager, <br>optional at build time?<br><br>Currently, I just comment out the geolocation dataengine in the corresponding <br>CMakeLists.txt and remove the dependency when building plasma-workspace, but <br>since I don't know about the code, I can't judge if this has any unforeseen <br>consequences, if a data engine is missing.<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Bernd<br><br>[1] <br>http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-workspace.git&a=commit&h=78c97f5b426a1a2dd2a9e94de3e482fce9e754ff<br>Konsole output<br>_______________________________________________<br>Plasma-devel mailing list<br>Plasma-devel@kde.org<br>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel</blockquote></body></html>