On 3 May 2013 01:46, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 22:44 +0200, Simone Caronni wrote: > > I think is already a bit too late, unfortunately. On my laptop: > > > > xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-13.0.0-1.fc18.x86_64 > > xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.2-3.20120718gite5ac80d8f.fc18.x86_64 > > xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.0.22-5.20120718gitde6620788.fc18.x86_64 > > spice-vdagent-0.14.0-1.fc18.x86_64 > > Well, "we have this thing that sucks, so let's add this OTHER thing that > sucks" has never been the strongest logic :P > [..]
> It seems like the thing to do would be to ask anaconda if it's > feasible / desirable to make the installation of this stuff contingent > on the environment. I kinda agree with Rich on the 'generic cloud image' > case; it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to just explicitly > include the necessary packages in generating such an image, so I don't > think it's particularly compelling to say we have to put useless > packages on everyone's systems just so that someone building a generic > image has a slightly easier time of it. > > If anaconda doesn't want to do the 'contingent install' thing, then the > 'just install it everywhere' option seems like the second best choice. > Yes, this is exactly my point, I was simply showing an example of this. I'm not a sponsor of having open-vm-tools installed by default. My preference would be not to install anything that is needed for a particular environment and install the additional packages on demand. I dont' see any problem in performing one of those for a sysadmin: yum install open-vm-tools yum install open-vm-tools-desktop (this could pull the vmmouse and vmware xorg drivers in) yum install spice-vdagent (this could pull the qxl driver in) yum install ovirt-guest-agent an image is never prepared as-is with the default installation, so I don't see the problem of performing an additional command. Having said that; what would be cool, is to have Anaconda detect the environment and install the correct packages at install time, so for example a user could have a nice starting impression after the first install. Regards, --Simone -- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. Emerson).
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