On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage > insists on plasma- meta-5.18.5. (Why?) If I unmask it, network-manager > insists on wifi ( wext ? Wifi ) even though there's no such hardware on > this machine. > > For the moment I've excluded plasma-meta from the -e @world, which > seems to be doing the job.
The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, in this case " Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If you don't want the kitchen sink, don't use meta packages. I have a kde set in /etc/portage/sets that includes just what I want. As a result I have a decent KDE desktop but without needing networkmanager, or any of the PIM stuff. -- Neil Bothwick Okay, I pulled the pin. Now what? Hey, where are you going?
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