After a default live install from a test live image I just created, I have kernel-modules-extra installed. Trying to remove it shows the following deps: gfs2-utils and xl2tpd both require kernel-modules-extra NetworkManager-l2tp requires x2ltpd Nothing requires gfs2-utils; I guess it and NM-l2tp are in comps/kickstart It seems like the point of splitting out kernel-modules-extra is rather lessened if it's just going to get dragged into basic images like the desktop live. Not sure if this is really considered a bug, but thought it worth reporting.
I don't disagree with your assessment, but the kernel isn't requiring kernel-modules-extra to be installed. There's nothing we can change in the kernel package itself as far as I'm aware, unless we remove the package entirely. That's going to run contrary to future changes I'm thinking about for more suitable packaging in cloud images (or tiny images). Also, I believe it saves time on ARM builds by them simply not building anything contained in there. So I don't think we can just get rid of it. Let's move it to the distribution component.
I should probably have mentioned in the original comment - yeah, picking a component was hard, I went with kernel just as this is where it's 'centralized' and you'd probably be interested. I did CC the maintainers of each involved package. 'distribution' is also fine.
We are only disabling kernel-modules-extra as a dep from gfs2-utils in certain arm builds and not all of them, to the best of my knowledge. We added the dep from gfs2-utils for backwards compatibility since otherwise there would be confusion with people not realising where the kernel modules for gfs2 had gone. In fact that started out with someone reporting that gfs2 was no longer being built in fedora as they didn't know about the kernel-modules-extra package.
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