On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:05:19PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:13:07AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > > 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. > > Make sure that python-libguestfs is included in the 'Virtualization' group > of Fedora comps.xml then. So that when someone does 'yum groupinstall Virtualizaation' or selects Virtualization in Anaconda, they get all the bits by default Done it. I added guestfs-browser as an optional component too. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list