[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#597158: dependency problem (?)

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Mon Sep 27 07:04:27 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:15:16PM -0400, Michael Swierczek wrote:
> I had the same problem as
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597158#5
> 
>  "apt-get install qemu-kvm virt-manager" finished without errors, but
> when I attempted to use virt-manager I received the same error.
> 
> To fix it, I had to do "apt-get install libvirt-bin".
> 
> I do not know if this is normal behavior, and the bug should be
> closed, or if it means virt-manager (or qemu-kvm) requires libvirt-bin
> as a dependency.
libvirt-bin is a Recommends since you can use virt-manager fine to
connect to remote machines without having libvirt-bin installed locally.

So I think we should keep it this way, especially since Recommends are
installed automatically.
Cheers,
 -- Guido





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