Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] spec: Decompose the daemon subpackage
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 06:03:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 11/24/22 03:57, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > - Ask for 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu',
'libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev',
> > which also gives you
> >
> > - libvirt-daemon
> >
> > The bare minimum libvirt pieces, but not the hypervisor itself
>
> Why not the hypervisor in this scenario?
'qemu-kvm' is a "typical installation" of QEMU packages on Fedora.
People wanting minimal installations want to fine tune exactly
which qemu-kvm-XXXX sub packages they install. So we don't force
any dep from 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu', let the user choose
exactly what they want.
I wonder if we could use
Requires: qemu-kvm-core
Recommends: qemu-kvm
here. The idea being that default installations would get a
fully-featured QEMU binary, whiel those aiming for a minimal install
would be able to disable recommends and get a stripped down, but
still functional, QEMU binary.
> > The only thing we can't achieve this way is to install
libvirtd and
> > QEMU, without having the module daemons present. I'm not sure that
> > matters though, if we aim to discontinue shipping libvirtd long term.
That's already the case today, so I'd say there's no need to worry
about it.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization