Re: pciutils in minimal ec2 image

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Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> 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.

Discover if there is an nvidia graphics card *on their EC2 image*? There
must be something obvious here that I'm missing.

If it it's for virt/phys determination, I'd be tempted to just put virt-what
in core.

Bill
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