why do I need colord?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:08:49 +0000
Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 11/8/11 12:09 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> >> 2011/11/8 Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com>:
> >>> 2011/11/7 Michał Piotrowski<mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>:
> >>>> Out of curiosity I wanted to ask, why do I need colord on my
> >>>> system?
> >>>
> >>> Checkout http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for details
> >>> about the project.
> >>
> >> I know what colord is intended for and I think this is really cool
> >> for desktop. I began to wonder why do I need it on my machine,
> >> because this system has no lcd panel attached - I'm accessing it
> >> through ssh.
> >
> > Printers and scanners have color spaces too.
> 
> Yea, but a lot of people don't have those either. I have around 5K
> servers in DCs with not a single printer or scanner in site. The vast
> majority of the 4 million odd XOs out there while they have a screen
> don't have a printer or scanner anywhere in sight.
> 

So - just do a kickstart install and set
-colord in the %packages section.

I agree that it is not useful on servers
I disagree that it is difficult to work around in a way that servers
normally install (kickstart)

-sv