On Friday, March 20, 2015, 9:33:55 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 07:30 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:22:24 -0400
> > Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I should also note that this isn't trimming down the package
> > > set
> > > on the DVD media; I'm still including the old hardware
> > > support as
> > > an optional installation. It will reduce the size of the
> > > installed system somewhat, though.
> >
> > Looks fine to me. +1
> >
> Thanks Dan, Kevin. Pushed to master. It will be in TC4.
May I suggest another candidate for removal?
Since servers do not have wireless, could we also please
remove
ModemManager from the default server install? This is part of
default
NetworkManager suite, and used for creating a network connection
via
LTE modems.
Aside from taking up space, it has persistent issues where
it
incorrectly misrecognizes devices during initialization, and
then
failing when that device turns out not to be suitable. There
are
discussion on the master about converting from a blacklist for
known
bad devices, to a whitelist for known good devices.
See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151853
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010538
for open bugs.
There does not seem to be any development activity for this
problem,
so removing ModemManager helps with both NETINST disk size, and
fewer
affected systems.
Al
Looking at comps.xml, Fedora Server is already not shipping this. It's
part of the "Dial-up Networking" package group, which we don't include
in the Server install (or on the install DVD ISO).
Those are the best kind of RFEs: the kind that are already done :)
Thanks for the suggestion!