[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#758477: libguestfs0: more and more dependencies

[Hilko Bengen]

* Christoph Anton Mitterer:

> libguestfs seems to have an ever growing list of dependencies.

And if you look closely, some of the more esoteric dependencies have
recently been demoted to Recommends and Suggests via libguestfs-*
packages.

> module-init-tools is a dummy.

Thanks, that should be kmod | module-init-tools. Noted.

> Many others may very well be required for some functionality, which
> is offered by libguestfs, which is however not used at all by most
> people.
>
> Recently, we got two bootmanagers (extlinux, syslinux).
> Or what about mdadm, lvm2, btrfs-tools, cryptsetup, dosfstools,
> mtools, gdisk, lsscsi, ntfs-3g, jfsutils, icoutils.

Most of those are for filesystems commonly found in VM images.

jfsutils is not a hard dependency.

> I mean I don't use any of these with my guest images but have to
> install them and their dependecies. Same for supermin,... never used
> it.

Unless you used a "fixed appliance" with libguestfs, you have used
supermin.

> Or vim-tiny... why do I have to install that, if I've already
> installed any of the full fledged vim packages?!

You don't. libgeustfs0 "Suggests" libgeustfs-rescue and
libguestfs-rescue "Depends" vim-tiny. (This is something that ought to
be handled better, granted.)

> For now, *guestfs* has to go to the trash. :(

Seriously, if you only wanted to rant, should I just go ahead and close
this bug report?

-Hilko