Trimming down the package set

Al Dunsmuir al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca
Thu Apr 2 14:34:11 UTC 2015


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 at 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



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