Am 03.05.2013 13:30, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: > Le Ven 3 mai 2013 01:46, Adam Williamson a écrit : > >> I don't really hate the 'let's just install it everywhere and make sure >> it doesn't run unless it's necessary' approach, but it is kinda lazy >> engineering, and it *does* waste space on those small-space cases Peter >> is always reminding us about. Especially if this stuff goes in core. >> >> 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 > > Well, this is what I call lazy engineering: detect hardware at install > time, assume it never changes, and ask users to reinstall from scratch > whenever they move systems (or hunt-the-third-party-bits-on-the-internet à > la windows 95) stay on topic! you do not need open-vm-tools for a working network, not for paravirt-scsi not for any virtual hardware nor will it break anything if you move the machine from VMware to whatever virtualization or even move the image to a phyiscal computer you are still hanging in the days vmware-drivers where insinde vmware-tools these days are gone for Fedora at least a year ago!
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