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

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon May 13 20:05:24 UTC 2013


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 19:42 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>
>>  + 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 )
>
> spice-vdagent is explicitly listed in base-x in comps, so it is in all
> default images and installs. The desktop spin does indeed have qemu/kvm
> as a dependency of Boxes, and that is intentional, it is considered to
> be a normal part of GNOME that should be included in a default desktop.

But the ovirt-guest-agent* which is the ovirt agent(s) aren't
installed by default, I think ultimately spice-vdagent was put there
by the maintainer and likely shouldn't be there by default.

Peter


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