On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 11:59 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > 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. We do, in fact, include the SPICE agent stuff by default now. (Which I like because it means copy/paste out of Fedora KVMs always works, but I never claimed not to be a hypocrite :>) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
