Re: [libvirt PATCH] spec: libvirt-daemon: Add optional dependency on *-client

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 05:24:18PM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote: > The libvirt-daemon subpackage contains libvirt-guests.sh script (used by > libvirt-guests service), which requires virsh to actually work. But > since dynamic libraries were separated from libvirt-client to > libvirt-libs more than 6 years ago, libvirt-daemon no longer requires > virsh to be installed. So unless libvirt-client is explicitly installed > (either manually or by installing the libvirt meta package), > libvirt-guests will not work. > > Just adding libvirt-client as a dependency of libvirt-daemon would go > against the original idea behind splitting libvirt-client: users may not > want to install or use any client binaries on the host where the daemon > runs (either they just use various language bindings or access the > daemon remotely). To solve this we could possibly turn libvirt-daemon > into an empty package and separate the daemons and libvirt-guests into > subpackages to make sure we support both use cases, but marking > libvirt-client as Recommended for libvirt-daemon does the same job in a > much simpler way. > Or you could just move the libvirt-guests files to libvirt-client package since they couldn't work without it anyway.