[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#648291: This is a problem for me too (with proposed solution)

[Andrew McDonnell]

It seems to stem from libguestfs0 having Depends: on a very large number of
packages (see below)

Surely it would be an improvement to simply make most of the -tools type
packages (as opposed to libs) be Recommended:, then those of us who know what
we want can simply choose to ignore that recommendation.

Also, surely this should not depend on a specific editor such as 'vim-tiny'?


$ apt-cache depends libguestfs0 -t wheezy
libguestfs0
  Depends: libaugeas0
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libfuse2
  Depends: libhivex0
  Depends: libmagic1
  Depends: libpcre3
  Depends: libvirt0
  Depends: libxml2
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Depends: febootstrap
  Depends: qemu-kvm
    qemu-kvm:i386
  Depends: bsdmainutils
    bsdmainutils:i386
  Depends: btrfs-tools
  Depends: cryptsetup
  Depends: diffutils
  Depends: iproute
    iproute:i386
  Depends: ntfs-3g
 |Depends: ntfs-3g
  Depends: ntfsprogs
  Depends: reiserfsprogs
  Depends: udev
    udev:i386
  Depends: vim-tiny
  Depends: xz-utils
    xz-utils:i386
  Depends: zfs-fuse
    zfs-fuse-fake
  Depends: binutils
  Depends: cpio
    cpio:i386
  Depends: dosfstools
  Depends: file
    file:i386
  Depends: jfsutils
  Depends: lsof
  Depends: lvm2
    lvm2:i386
  Depends: module-init-tools
  Depends: net-tools
  Depends: parted
  Depends: procps
    procps:i386
  Depends: scrub
  Depends: strace
  Depends: xfsprogs
  Depends: zerofree
  Depends: netpbm
  Depends: icoutils
    icoutils:i386
  Conflicts: libguestfs0:i386