Why do I need isdn4k-utils

[Dave]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 09:55 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:53, Dave wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 January 2005 09:48 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:47, Dave wrote:
> > > > I've never even been in the same building as an ISDN connection, at
> > > > least not knowingly. So why did this get installed, and what will
> > > > happen if I remove it?
> > >
> > > Because you are one person and the community who demand it are 1000s of
> > > people?
> >
> >  I'm not at all questioning why it's in Fedora. I'm just curious why it
> > got installed on my system without asking. Inquiring minds want to know
> > and understand. After all, millions of people demand Microsoft Windows,
> > but I'm not one of them, either.
>
> Good Point!
> ;)

 Glad you saw the humour--after I sent that, I worried it might come across as 
snippy or brusque rather than joking.

 The real point I was trying to make is--I want to UNDERSTAND what's going on 
on my system. Perhaps not at the guru level--but I want to know, e.g. when I 
do a 'ps ax' what everything is for, so I can recognize problems. There's 
quite a few things installed that don't make sense--I have no bluetooth 
hardware installed, so I'd have expected that lack to be noticed and all the 
bluez-* packages left out.

 Another example--I have a CLEARLY single-processor system. So why is 
irqbalance activated in runlevels 3-5? I can grudgingly accept why it was 
installed--it's easier to have a single kernel-utils package than have a 
single processor and multi-processor versions. And apparently it exits 
quietly when it discovers it's not needed. But why is it turned on in the 
first place?