Bug#685618: d-i: do not install mpt-status on vmware hardware

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:49:23PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Did you read the two bug reports at all? I assume not, otherwise you would not
> be asking. I don't want to receive emails from mpt-status, telling me that my
> raid is broken, if there is no raid at all. Also I do not want to waste ram to
> run something I don't need and I did not install.

So vmware emulates a raid controller but you don't want to use it.

But at the same time most people who do have such a raid controller would
want software for it, so why should Debian not install the software that
is appropriate to that controller?

Can't you tell vmware to not emulate that raid controller if you have
no intention of using it?

Now how many people have that controller and use it as just a scsi
controller rather than a raid controller might be a good question.
perhaps most owners of such hardware don't actually care for the raid
monitoring software.

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Len Sorensen