> Packages or package groups installed by the standard system or GUI task > that looks weird to me. I haven't checked why they are installed in any > way. > - radeontool. The description looks like: don't use. Also the radeon > cards now belong completely to the kernel. > - vbetool. Can be considered disallowed by modern kernels. Both are recommends of pm-utils. If a system is listed as needing a suspend quirk and KMS is not enabled, it uses those tools, so installing them by default is imho still justified. If KMS support is detected, those tools are not used and we only have some wasted disk space. Both packages are rather small though (radeontool: 58,8kb, vbetool: 61,4kb). As radeon/KMS is afaik to be the default for squeeze, we might consider downgrading at least radeontool to suggests. CCed Julien for input here. For squeeze+1, we can probably downgrade boths recommends to suggests, as KMS by then is hopefully stable on all three major graphics platforms. > - usb-modeswitch. The kernel seems to handle this in the meantime. This one is pulled my modem-manager, a dependency of network-manager. According to NetworkManager upstream, modem quirks should no longer be added to the kernel but to usb-modeswitch. I can dig out references if you want. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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