On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > Hmmm... what is pciutils used for? From a little googling, it seems like it > is a tool that I would manually have to use, not something required by the > system itself for anything that happens automatically (ie, at boot time)? >
It provides the lspci utility, which is handy when you are trying to figure out what drivers to enable in your kernel. > If so, I've never used it that I can recall, so I guess I can let depclean > remove it? > Yes. > As for gpm... this is the 'general purpose mouse server'? If so, guess I > don't need this either, since this is a VM without a gui? > gpm allows you to use a mouse to copy/paste from the Linux text console. You need to start the daemon for that to work. It's not "needed".
