Re: [libvirt] [PATCH jenkins-ci 1/2] Enable mingw build for libvirt-glib project

On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 13:20 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: Hm, I guess I see where you're coming from. One of the original ideas was that the dependencies listed here would be as comprehensive as possible, so that you would be able to skip building some parts of the stack (and installing the corresponding build dependencies) if you were only interested in higher-level projects such as virt-manager: in that case, you would just install libvirt-python from the vendor repositories and go ahead with your day. I guess we haven't been very consistent with that, though, as clearly shown by the fact that the list of requirements I offered for the MinGW build is way bigger than that of the native build! It's also unclear how useful being so strict about packages is, and how realistic it is that we will get it right all of the time :) So perhaps a reasonable compromise is indeed not to list packages again if one of the direct dependencies already needs them to build: libvirt-glib would only list packages libvirt doesn't already depend on, but there could be duplicates between libvirt and libosinfo because neither depends on the other. That would be much easier to get right. tl;dr go ahead with your version of the patch, and I might have some other cleaning up to do later :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization