Re: kernel-modules-extra in desktop live spins
It came to my attention today that the kernel-modules-extra package
is
included in the live spins. It has been for quite some time from what
I can tell. I was just wondering if this was intentional, or if there
was some reasoning behind it. It is expected that
kernel-modules-extra should not be required on most systems.
There's the issue Adam mentioned but also for a lot of desktops they
mark NetworkManager-l2tp (or it's -gnome sub package) as mandatory,
and system-tools has it as default and this pulls in
kernel-modules-extra. For the vast majority of Deskop VPN use cases
these days I actually doubt this is actually useful to be installed by
default. I wonder if the problem Adam mentioned would go away by
making the l2tp bits optional, from experience it really tends to be a
site to site protocol.
Peter