http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588 User lslezak@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588#c1 Ladislav Slezak changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|lslezak@novell.com |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Ladislav Slezak 2009-09-07 08:07:13 MDT --- The solver says: "pattern: enhanced_base-11.2-13.1.x86_64 requires bootsplash-branding-openSUSE". So the base pattern requires the branding package. Stephan? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588 User coolo@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588#c3 --- Comment #3 from Stephan Kulow 2009-09-07 08:13:39 MDT --- actually the bug report as such is WONTFIX, because text-only install _should_ require gfxboot. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588 User brian@aljex.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533588#c5 --- Comment #5 from white brian 2009-09-08 14:37:16 MDT --- What about my serial consoles on servers thousands of miles away? I need to be able to install/update/run-single-user servers via serial console. When gfxboot tries to use the vga hardware, it breaks the serial console. Sometimes only briefly while grub is running, which is bad enough since it means I can't operate grub, sometimes permanently until the hardware is power-cycled, and all points in between those two extremes depending on the quirks of the particular hardware involved. gfxboot and splashy are not text-only, and I assert that there is definitely a need for a real text-only system. It would be bad but tolerable if some required base package merely included or installed gfxboot and/or splashy, but did not actually use them by default on a text-only system. Most _especially_ they should not be inserted automatically after they have been manually removed. But even that would be a problem really. There is a simple reason I want them not-installed vs merely not-invoked. If the binary exists at all, some poorly written scripts may detect that it is there and assume it should be used. Other even more poorly written scripts may simply try to use it without even checking. In both cases the safest thing is to simply not have the binary installed at all. If a binary is not installed, it is impossible to even accidentally run it, and so it can't screw up my all-important console. The functionality of my console is 18 million times more important than if that console displays an opensuse logo. This should not be a difficult wish. I should be able to have this without a fight or without major hackery. Unless you are simply asserting that openSUSE is not advertised as being a suitable OS for servers. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.