Re: Dependency to Network Manager / kf5-NetworkManagerQt in plasma-workspace

[Marián Kyral]

+1 for this.

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).

Marián

---------- Původní zpráva ----------
Od: Bernd Steinhauser <linux at bernd-steinhauser.de>
Komu: plasma-devel at kde.org
Datum: 26. 5. 2015 10:16:52
Předmět: Dependency to Network Manager / kf5-NetworkManagerQt in plasma-
workspace

"Hi,

since the commit with the id 78c97fin plasma-workspace [1], it depends on 
NetworkManagerQt and hence on Network Manager unconditionally. The use case 
outlined in the commit is that the data engine tries to access wlan via 
network 
manager to find out which hotspots are around and use that to get location 
informations.
Now apart from the fact that I wouldn't want it to do that and that it 
couldn't 
do it on my system, because it uses systemd-networkd for network 
configuration, 
this results in a dependency on Network Manager.
I do understand that Martin when introducing this commit thought that most 
systems running Plasma 5 will run Network Manager anyway, since that is a 
preferred way of setting up network for many distributions. However, there 
are 
many systems, that don't need and use Network Manager and possible don't 
want to 
have it installed at all.
Aside from my desktop computer, examples could for example include 
workstations 
at universities, which often have a static network setup (doesn't matter how

that is setup).

So the question is:
Could you make this feature, and therefore the dependency on Network 
Manager, 
optional at build time?

Currently, I just comment out the geolocation dataengine in the 
corresponding 
CMakeLists.txt and remove the dependency when building plasma-workspace, but

since I don't know about the code, I can't judge if this has any unforeseen 
consequences, if a data engine is missing.

Best Regards,
Bernd

[1] 
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-workspace.git&a=commit&h=78c97f5b426a1a2dd
2a9e94de3e482fce9e754ff
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