starting Fedora Server SIG

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 17:10:37 UTC 2008


Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said: 
> For some reason redhat-lsb pulls in qt, qt-X11 and qt3. redhat-lsb is
> certainly something you'd probably want in a server environment but no
> idea why it would need qt. Its also a 'default' in base. I'm also not
> quite sure why old not often used tools like ypbind, rsh, rdate, rdate
> are set as default either. Anyone that would need to use those style
> systems would also know how to install them.

I wonder if authconfig could be taught to install packages; at
the moment, it expects the components it configures to be installed,
and simply disables the configuration bits for those components that
aren't.

Bill




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