Why do I need isdn4k-utils
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 21 04:43:02 UTC 2005
Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:02:03PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> > >
> > > On the other hand, I still see no valid arguments for putting isdn4k-
> > > utils on *every* Fedora system on Earth. Certainly ISDN is not *that*
> > > important, nor is it *that* widespread.
> >
> > if you believe in that file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com then
>
> I've been thinking about this off and on for the last week
> about a number of services. Just because we install them doesn't
> necessarily mean they need be enabled at every boot.
>
> Take for example microcode_ctl (formerly part of kernel-utils).
> This is only a relevant tool if you have an Intel CPU of 686
> class or higher. You can however install the package on anything,
> and until last week's rawhide, it would chkconfig --add itself
> unconditionally, resulting in the startup of this tool that would
> immediately exit. Every single time you boot.
>
> I've got plans to add similar smarts to other tools, such
> as 'only enable pcmcia service if a pcmcia/cardbus controller
> is listed in lspci'. The only question bugging me right now is
> 'what happens if someone adds a PCI PCMCIA controller card
> at a later date'. Kudzu will spot the card, but will it
> do the necessary magic with chkconfig? Bill ?
Nah, just make cardmgr go away. :)
Certainly there's no code currently there for that.
> Hopefully by the time we get to FC4, with enough changes
> like this, the boot process of a 'default' install should
> be a lot faster than we have today. (along with all the
> other work thats ongoing to speed it up).
That's the plan. However, I do wonder how much it costs to
run one cached shell that immediately exits. :/
Bill
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