Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] rpm: create libvirt-wireshark sub-package

On 02/13/2014 03:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> yum install libvirt >> >> drags in wireshark as a dependency. There wouldn't be anything bad >> about it, except the wireshark plugin is expected to be used by >> developers, not an ordinary users. If I were an ordinary user I'd be >> very curious why I need to install wireshark to run libvirt. > > I agree, we should *not* have 'libvirt' depend on the wireshark > plugin. We should treat 'libvirt' as pulling in everything that > it would have done in the past before we split the RPMs. So by > that rationale new functionality is out of scope. Then I'll revert the patch that I already pushed (sorry for not waiting for this conversation to come to a conclusion).