On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 08:41:44 +0100, vrms wrote: Firstly please don't start a conversation by replying to an existing one as it gets threaded improperly. > I am running qemu/kvm on a Manjaro Laptop. There is a thing with a package > named ceph-libs being removed from manjaro repos apparently. > This requires to build it from AUR which fails. The only reason for > ceph-libs seems that apparently qemu-block-rbd depends on it. However > nothing else seems to depend on qemu-block-rbd. > > Can anybody tell me whether in your eyes qemu-block-rbd may be save to > remove and likewise resolve this problem? 'qemu-block-rbd' is a qemu backed for accessing ceph/RBD disks. qemu is modular so it will work without the backend if you don't need to access RBD storage, so you can remove the package without any problem.