"Keith Packard" writes: > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > (speaking as a Debian user, not as a TC member) > >> I'm afraid don't really want to do the work of writing a better UI. >> But I have provided a simple patch which at least makes the behaviour >> safe. > > Would it be sufficient to simply stop installing this largely-useless > package at this point? In what environments do users typically have > modems which work with AT-style commands?
It's not useless. At least not when using UMTS via USB dongles which I would guess more people use than ham radio. (Some of these USB dongles also emulate network cards and provide a DHCP server instead IIRC.) Ansgar