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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