some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Bill Nottingham]

Alexandre Oliva (aoliva at redhat.com) said: 
> > Realistically, the only sort of device that has a lot of site-local
> > configuration is a network card; for most other things you don't care.
> 
> Hmm, let's see...
> 
> - Printer: probably want to keep customizations such as default page
> size, paper tray, etc
> 
> - Mouse: emulate the middle button or not.
> 
> - Keyboard: what's the key layout
> 
> - Display: what depth, resolution to use
> 
> - Hard disks: where to mount
> 
> 
> So what other kinds of devices whose local configurations didn't
> matter did you have in mind anyway?

Let me rephrase...

'local configuration that the tool currently touches'.

Bill