pciutils in minimal ec2 image

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 12 13:24:45 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:10:54AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> This is an explicit addition in the kickstart. Anyone recall *why*?
> (If it's important enough, it should just get shoved into core. If it's
> not important enough, it should just get dropped....)

I don't know the original reason.

I assume it's there because many people have scripts which use the output to
determine if they're running virtual or local. SUSE's ec2 utils use it to
discover if there's an nvidia graphics card, which I don't think we're
concerned with.


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