On Wed, Jan 18 2023 at 10:19:24 AM -0800, Gordon Messmer
<gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Several people suggested using a weak dependency (Suggests:) on the
iscsi driver, but I don't think that would solve the problem for most
users because weak dependencies are installed by default and nothing
really communicates to users that unless they add an obscure option,
their boot times will increase.
No, Suggests basically does nothing. See this table here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/WeakDependencies/
Recommends and Supplements are real dependencies that are installed
automatically but which you can opt out of. Suggests and Enhances are
just kinda there, and will not be installed automatically. Not sure if
they are really useful.
FESCo could also revisit 2386 and reconsider whether enabled by
default
is the right decision for this service. I assume there was an explicit
decision for this because of the policy that an enabled-by-default
service "must not require manual configuration to function", which
iscsi
does. Maybe the fact that it requires manual configuration means that
interested users should also be required to enable the service, given
the pain that the status quo causes for what seems like the far more
common case that this service is installed by all users of libvirt but
not needed by most of them. (also addressing condition 2)
This sounds attractive too.
Michael
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