Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13336
RFE: More packages should be de-selectable
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
Everytime I install Red Hat, I get the packages kernel-pcmcia-cs apmd raidtools no matter what. I only have desktop systems and have no need for these packages. They're just annoying extra packages (I try to keep my systems as small as possible) that I have to remove manually after every install/upgrade. I understand that these packages should probably be installed as default since the two first ones are definately needed for laptops and the last one for systems with software raid already set up. But my vote is that these packages should be de-selectable at least if one chooses a custom install.
I concur
There's now a Laptop package in beta3 including apmd and kernel-pcmcia-cs (as well as the irda and wireless tools), but raidtools are always installed by default. Also, these packages could be useful or necessary on a desktop system (more are beginning to use wireless lan to interact with roaming laptops)
In Pinstripe, kernel-pcmcia-cs and apmd seem to be back in the base package, and thus they get installed on all systems, whether essential or completely unnecessary, and they're not de-selectable during a custom install. :-(
This is required so a machine install with PCMCIA will reboot and networking will work properly.