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

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 21:05 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.

I think all you can say is that the behaviour isn't consistent between
different virt agent-type packages. comps appears to be in the process
of fixing that, though.
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