a) screen While this is an important app, sure, does it belong in core?
Probably not. Useful, but not normally used till after an install and should be OK in extra.
b) hdparm and sdparm I don't see how these work in "support" - as the very least I'd put them at the same mental level as acpi and pm-utils
Some drives/controllers used to required forcing modes with hdparm to get decent performance (think install taking 2 days). Not sure if this is still an issue.
c) openswan/openvpn/vpnc I'm on the fence here. I mean, I could see VPN connections being needed at some point during an install or something of the sort, but at the same time, why do we have 3 VPN apps there?
openswan does ipsec based VPN openvpn does SSL/TLS based VPN vpnc does cisco based VPN Not saying that they should be in core, but if we deem that one should be, they all should be. Dale