Trimming down the package set

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Apr 2 20:44:41 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 10:34 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> 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
> 

Looking at comps.xml, Fedora Server is already not shipping this. It's 
part of the "Dial-up Networking" package group, which we don't include 
in the Server install (or on the install DVD ISO).

Those are the best kind of RFEs: the kind that are already done :)

Thanks for the suggestion!
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