On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ravindra Kumar (ravindrakumar@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >> (Batching a bunch of replies) >> >> > Install and uninstall looks a bit weird to me; what could be >> > done is to make the package conditionally whether it's running >> > in a VMware VM or not, much like it happens now for the EFI >> > packages (only installed on an EFI system) or the spice agent >> > (IIRC) if it's installed in libvirt/kvm or RHEV/ovirt. >> >> Thanks Simone. I will look into this. >> >> > Wouldn't the opposite make more sense? >> >> Yes, that is more logical. But, I have considered how Anaconda >> installs packages from CD and yum etc. Conditionally excluding >> it during different types of installation methods will probably >> require lots of changes in different pieces of install framework. >> E.g. including/excluding a package from CD, including/excluding >> a package from yum etc. > > But adding it if a condition is met seems much simpler. Consider > how it adds FS tools or RAID tools depending on the type of install. > > Or if this was done via a yum plugin, it's possible it could be > done automatically at that level. I don't see why we would add this by default, the VM will function without is (unlike storage) and we don't add ovirt-guest-agent and other virt vendor's agents by default. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
