Dave Jones (davej@xxxxxxxxxx) 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
