On 07/30/2011 01:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
- Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for libguestfs).
This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg, which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though it's a good feature of dpkg.
We might _not_ make it a dependency at all. Virt-manager will still work, just without the enhanced inspection features.
Just so you know ...
Yeah I had a similar report (or maybe the same one?) Figuring that we go to great pains in virt-manager to avoid having a dep on qemu or libvirtd (since virt-manager doesn't need either to be useful), we can't have a hard dep on libguestfs, so I'll be dropping it for the Fedora packages. Thanks, Cole