diff --git a/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml b/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
index 3b76d7beb..7aab952c2 100644
--- a/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
+++ b/roles/2-common/tasks/packages.yml
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
-- name: "Install 10 yum/dnf packages: avahi, avahi-tools, createrepo, linux-firmware, nss-mdns, openssl, syslog, wpa_supplicant, xml-common, yum-utils (redhat)"
-  package:
-    name:
-      - avahi
-      - avahi-tools
-      - createrepo
-      - linux-firmware
-      - nss-mdns
-      - openssl    # FC 18 does not supply, but pear requires
-      - syslog
-      - wpa_supplicant
-      - xml-common
-      - yum-utils
-    state: present
-  when: is_redhat
+# - name: "Install 10 yum/dnf packages: avahi, avahi-tools, createrepo, linux-firmware, nss-mdns, openssl, syslog, wpa_supplicant, xml-common, yum-utils (redhat)"
+#   package:
+#     name:
+#       - avahi
+#       - avahi-tools
+#       - createrepo
+#       - linux-firmware
+#       - nss-mdns
+#       - openssl    # FC 18 does not supply, but pear requires
+#       - syslog
+#       - wpa_supplicant
+#       - xml-common
+#       - yum-utils
+#     state: present
+#   when: is_redhat
 
-- name: "Install 6 deb/apt packages: avahi-daemon, exfat-fuse, exfat-utils, inetutils-syslogd, libnss-mdns, wpasupplicant (debuntu)"
+- name: "Install 6 deb/apt packages: avahi-daemon, exfat-fuse, exfat-utils, inetutils-syslogd, libnss-mdns, wpasupplicant"
   package:
     name:
       #- avahi-discover
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
       - libnss-mdns    # Provides name resolution via mDNS (Multicast DNS) using Zeroconf/Bonjour e.g. Avahi
       - wpasupplicant
     state: present
-  when: is_debuntu
+  #when: is_debuntu
 
-- name: "Install 20 common packages: acpid, bridge-utils, bzip2, curl, gawk, hostapd, htop, i2c-tools, logrotate, make, mlocate, netmask, net-tools, ntfs-3g, pandoc, pastebinit, rsync, sqlite3, tar, unzip, usbutils, wget"
+- name: "Install 19 common packages: acpid, bzip2, curl, gawk, htop, i2c-tools, logrotate, make, mlocate, net-tools, ntfs-3g, pandoc, pastebinit, rsync, sqlite3, tar, unzip, usbutils, wget"
   package:
     name:
       - acpid         # Daemon for ACPI (power mgmt) events
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
       - gawk
       - htop
       - i2c-tools     # Low-level bus/chip/register/EEPROM tools e.g. for RTC
-      - iproute2
+      #- iproute2     # Installed by roles/2-common/tasks/network.yml
       - logrotate
       #- lynx         # Installed by 1-prep's roles/iiab-admin/tasks/access.yml
       - make          # 2021-04-26: What roles (if any) truly still use this?