On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 06:22:33PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
A default deployment on modern distros uses modular daemons but switching back to the monolithic daemon, while not recommended, is still considered a perfectly valid option.
For a monolithic daemon deployment, the upgrade to libvirt 9.2.0 or newer works as expected; a subsequent call to dnf autoremove, however, results in the libvirt-daemon package being removed and the deployment no longer working.
In order to avoid that situation, mark the libvirt-daemon as recommended.
This will unfortunately result in it being included in most installations despite not being necessary, but considering that the alternative is breaking existing setups on upgrade it feels like a reasonable tradeoff.
Moreover, since the dependency on libvirt-daemon is just a weak one, it's still possible for people looking to minimize the footprint of their installation to manually remove the package after installation, mitigating the drawbacks of this approach.
Not just that, experienced users can even skip installation of it with using '--setopt=install_weak_deps=False'. Footprint aside, I don't see a practical problem having both installed even if unused since it allows users switching between the deployment modes seamlessly without having to go and install an extra package. FWIW: Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>