On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:08:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
I tried doing that some time ago. I got so heavily bogged down in a dependency mire that I gave up. You wouldn't like to show your set, would you? Please? :) -- Regards, Peter.
