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?
