[libvirt] [PATCH] rpm: create libvirt-wireshark sub-package

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 13:36:28 UTC 2014


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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