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

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 19:10:31 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:59 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Randy W. Wyatt wrote:
> >> 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
> 
> > Dialup PPP can be used with data cards and so forth
> 
> 'can' is not a good ratinale for 'in base profile for all' -- 
> those doing mobile device dialup will already be solving lots, 
> and installing wvdial is no material burden.

There's actually a lot of work underway within NetworkManager right now
to make this painless to set up.  

Jeremy




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