RFE: Remove isdn4k-utils from base installs

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 05:55:06 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:46:49PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
 > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:04 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
 > > I have not had to deal with any ISDN since 1999.  I have no need to have it 
 > > installed on my systems.  It is a bit irritating to be removing it all the 
 > > time.  It isn't sucked back in as a dependency for me at some later point, 
 > > either.  If someone does need it installed, I would find it highly likely 
 > > that they would be capable of finding the right package.
 > > 
 > > Based on all of that, I'd like to see it removed from base installs in Fedora 
 > > 9, please.
 > 
 > Since if you actually need the package, the reason you need it is so
 > that you can get online, it's pretty important to have there by default
 > for most cases.  If you don't want it, uncheck the dial-up group.
 > 
 > ISDN is still somewhat common-place outside of the US, especially in
 > Europe

'type of connectivity' would be a useful thing for smolt to start tracking
so that we can check this is still true.   Kind of tricky to get right
without a UI though, as the box running smolt could be going through NAT
to the outside world.

	Dave

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