Arch Linux

Description:

I realise there has been many bug reports about this, although I would ask the maintainers to read until the end before closing as duplicate.

On the tracker we have many similar requests, roughly grouped in two:
- "remove" networkmanager/bluez
Not possible since it will break people who do use the NM and friends

- demote networkmanager/bluez to optional dependency
Possible today, see below for more.

If you look closely at the code you'll see that the nm/bluez functionality is limited to the action, which is it's own module (on-demand loaded DSO). As such neither the executables nor the main library powerdevilcore actually link to it.
Yes, currently the code claims that powerdevilcore does link [1], although that is an actual bug (over-linking) and I've sent a patch upstream [2].

I believe when the original reported came out, we did not have the automatic "as-needed" in our default linker options. Thus we were all mislead that the "executables" needed NM/Bluez.
Since that change, the overlinking is automatically resolved and things just work. See reproducer below for step-by-step guide


Additional info:
* package version(s)
powerdevil 5.27.1-1

* link to upstream bug report, if any
[1] https://github.com/KDE/powerdevil/commit/829ab7996660520dd8c342c71f8d5c351c52f39b
[2] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/136


Steps to reproduce:
- install plasma and friends
- pacman -R networkmanager-qt --assume-installed networkmanager-qt
- reboot
- start plasma -> system settings -> Power management
- note that the wireless power management "page" will be missing
- all other Power management pages and toggles work fine