Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

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.