diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9d54b12ed3..ef156c2c30 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stages:
 
     - date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'; ! grep -q '^NAME=.*\(CentOS\)' /etc/os-release || (yum install -y glibc-common && localedef -c -i pl_PL -f UTF-8 pl_PL.UTF-8 && locale -a)
 
-    - date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'; NM_INSTALL="yum install -y" ./contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
+    - date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'; NM_NO_EXTRA=1 NM_INSTALL="yum install -y" ./contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
     - date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'; yum install -y glibc-langpack-pl ccache clang which
 
     # containers have "tsflags=nodocs" in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. We need /usr/shared/gtk-doc/html
diff --git a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
index 6be678b318..b656db8de4 100755
--- a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
+++ b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
@@ -28,14 +28,23 @@ install_ignore_missing() {
     done
 }
 
+if test "$NM_NO_EXTRA" != 1; then
+    # these packages are convenient for developing, but not necessary
+    # for CI testing.
+    EXTRA_PACKAGES=(
+        bash-completion \
+        cscope \
+    )
+else
+    EXTRA_PACKAGES=()
+fi
+
 install \
     ModemManager-devel \
     ModemManager-glib-devel \
     audit-libs-devel \
-    bash-completion \
     bluez-libs-devel \
     bzip2 \
-    cscope \
     dbus-devel \
     dbus-python \
     dbus-x11 \
@@ -58,6 +67,7 @@ install \
     libuuid-devel \
     make \
     meson \
+    mobile-broadband-provider-info-devel \
     newt-devel \
     nss-devel \
     polkit-devel \
@@ -75,7 +85,7 @@ install \
     vala-tools \
     valgrind \
     wireless-tools-devel \
-    #end
+    "${EXTRA_PACKAGES[@]}"
 
 # some packages don't exist in certain distributions. Install them one-by-one, and ignore errors.
 install_ignore_missing \