[Bug 587426] Re: No GPU found

[René Mayorga]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:23:25AM -0000, Skip Guenter wrote:
> My understanding is that upstream doesn't want to force xserver as a
> pre-req for running BOINC.  OK, then we need something in the install to
> ask if it's going to run on a server w/o a GUI (leave as is) or in a
> normal desktop environment with gdm running (set the boinc user to be
> the installing user ID).  Maybe?  Comments, ideas??

Actually that is one of the ideas that came to my mind a few months ago[1], 
The other one is to use a separate package to introduce those changes, but that
will be against policy though.

[1]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-boinc-devel/2010-July/002773.html


Cheer

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René