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

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Tue May 14 07:50:31 UTC 2013


On 05/13/2013 08:02 PM, Adam Williamson 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.

The problem being that not all cpu's are equal and there is alot of hw 
out there which is not virtualzation capable so not only do we install 
qemu/kvm on those boxes but also *enable* it for majority of users that 
do not have a clue what it is nor will ever come to use it...

JBG


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