On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:01 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 21/06/09 12:57, Michal Schmidt wrote: > > > > Someone already requested this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480558 > > Good > > > > > Why does it bother you? The package is not that big. > > It's not about size, it's about making sense. > No wireless, therefore why wireless installed. Same reason the kernel installs a lot of drivers. If you, in the future, plug something wireless in, it'll work. It's also a question of maintainability. Sure, we could split up tons of packages and add code to all the tools to check runtime-availability of every tool they might use. But that's just insane, and increases the maintenance burden tremendously. So the tradeoff is between the packagers maintaining an ugly patch that upstream probably won't care about, against making the 5% of people who really want to remove wireless-tools happy. Every change like this increases the maintenance burden, and I'd argue that it's simply not worth it. There's also value to being able to just plug hardware in and have it work without downloading additional software. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
