On 02/13/2014 06:30 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/13/2014 03:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> yum install libvirt >>> >>> drags in wireshark as a dependency. There wouldn't be anything bad >>> about it, except the wireshark plugin is expected to be used by >>> developers, not an ordinary users. If I were an ordinary user I'd be >>> very curious why I need to install wireshark to run libvirt. >> >> I agree, we should *not* have 'libvirt' depend on the wireshark >> plugin. We should treat 'libvirt' as pulling in everything that >> it would have done in the past before we split the RPMs. So by >> that rationale new functionality is out of scope. > > Then I'll revert the patch that I already pushed (sorry for not waiting > for this conversation to come to a conclusion). A further argument in favor of reverting: 'libvirt' does not depend on 'libvirt-devel', so it already does not pull in EVERY subpackage, just subpackages related to FULL features of libvirtd. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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