Trimming down the package set

Al Dunsmuir al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca
Thu Apr 2 14:44:55 UTC 2015


On Thursday, April 2, 2015, 10:34:11 AM, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> 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.

A related issue to ModemManager being installed by default is that the
service  unit  is  also  enabled by default.

Whether it continues to be shipped (or installed) by default or not, I
would suggest that from a security point of view to change the service
to be disabled by default, and require that it be explicitly enabled.

The same issue was mentioned in an Arch Linux post (see bz).

Al



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