NetworkManager: do not tend missing hardware

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 13:56 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 12:10 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:28:56 -0700
> > John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > $ dmesg
> > > Apr 25 05:56:36 localhost NetworkManager[614]: <info> modem-manager is now available
> > 
> > Yeah, modem manager is irksome, although in my case it only wastes 2.3 MB.
> > Did you try to file something like "make NM load helpers only as needed"?
> > Dan is usually quite responsive. At worst he'll explain in Bugzilla why
> > NM does it this way.
> 
> In F18+, the NetworkManager package has no dependency on ModemManager,
> but MM is installed via comps groups.  So either just don't install the
> dialup group, or don't install ModemManager, and then you won't have MM
> running.
> 
> > Bluetooth is generally attached through USB, BTW. NM could know if
> > BT adapter is on or not, even get events when it comes online (by flipping
> > hardware switch).
> 
> If you don't want BT, then don't install Bluez; if Bluez isn't running,
> then NM won't care about bluetooth hardware.

Or, install it (other stuff might have deps on it), but systemd mask the
service so it never starts.  The NM RPM doesn't depend on bluez.

Dan