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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