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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