bluetooth in default desktop install?

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 28 16:30:00 UTC 2006


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 18:21 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:01:07PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> The more you add as a default, the closer we get to having 3 CDs needed for 
>>> a "default" install.  Laptops are a part of our userbase.  Are the enough of 
>>> our userbase to further bloat the default install?
>> As a laptop user who has a cellphone with bluetooth support, I'ld prefer that
>> this stays not installed by default. It's only one yum command away, anyway.
> 
> Sure, its easy for people who know the rpm package names to install it
> from a shell. However, bluetooth is getting to be widespread enought
> that people just expect it to work without having to do special magic. I
> mean, removing it is only one click in the installer or one yum command
> too if you have specific diskspace requirements.
> 
> Of course, bumping us to needing 3 CDs for a default install could be a
> problem. 

Lets move around and drop packages as much as necessary to stick with 1 
for minimal and 2 for default install. Is there other stuff that's 
installed by default that isnt really necessary?

Rahul




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