Adding open-vm-tools-desktop package to desktop group

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 05/13/2013 06:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 12:17 -0700, Ravindra Kumar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Currently, I'm maintaining open-vm-tools in Fedora.
>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/open-vm-tools
>>
>>
>>
>> open-vm-tools provides significant functionality for VM management
>> and helps in anything that requires co-ordination with the guest.
>>
>>
>>
>> open-vm-tools package provides a sub-package open-vm-tools-desktop.
>> open-vm-tools-desktop is a very small package and provides integration
>> of VM's desktop UI with host UI or remote client UI. It is essential
>> for
>> improved user experience of the VM UI, e.g. things like copy/paste,
>> proper VM UI screen resolution. This package spawns a process on
>> each user login (the process is stopped during logout). The process
>> exits
>> gracefully if the desktop is not running on a VMware VM.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to include open-vm-tools-desktop package as part of most
>> of the desktop package groups in Fedora by default. Could you please
>>
>> help me with the process to make the necessary changes?
>>
>>
>>
>> FYI, I'm working with Fedora group to include open-vm-tools as part
>> of @standard group.
> It might be better to see if it can be added to @base-x , so all the
> desktops would inherit it without having to list it specifically?

Keep all the vm stuff in a vm comps group so it can be filtered out on 
bare metal installs + that stuff should not be default on live iso ( as 
seem to be the case with Gnome which seem pull in qemu/kvm probably via 
virt-manager or boxee )

JBG