et tu, wvdial Re: RFE: Remove isdn4k-utils from base installs

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Fri Feb 22 20:50:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:15 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> > I wonder where all the vocal germans are, in opposition to 
> > this change.  :)
> >
> > Seriously, I wonder how much this is still true.  A few 
> > years ago, sure, but now, aparently even some of the more 
> > rural parts of Germany have ADSL.
> 
> in for a dime, in for a dollar --the same RFE arguments for 
> trimming out dialup PPP support (wvdial) exist;  while dialup 
> PPP still exists, it is a dying breed in Fedora's target 
> audience

Honestly, how much space would be saved by cutting out ISDN? PPP? Unless
it's a saving on order of hundreds of megs, it's a drop in the bucket.
Its much more important to have things "just work" for the maximum
number of users.
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