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 ? 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). Dave
