[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#768376: Bug#768376: [libvirt-daemon-system]

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:45:43PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Hi all, hi Guido!
> 
> I just wanted to throw in my 2c. While cleaning up some machines, I
> came along my KVM host and actually wondered why policykit was pulled
> in.  I'm as well only using root-based access to libvirt, which keeps
> all the systemd stack installed.
> 
>   I admit that I'm not too deep into the details of packaging. It's
> probably a good thing to pull polkit in the first place, since it's
> probably used. However, I'd be quite happy to see a way getting rid of
> the (hard) dependency, allowing to deinstall polkit and its
> dependencies.  Going a route like requiring some libvirt-auth meta
> package, provided by libvirt-polkit und libvirt-socket would probably
> do the job, but might look like over-engineering?

I do agree that being able to go without polkit would be nice but a
similar situation with virt-manger showed that Recommends: are just not
enough. Many people skip them and then report bugs if you use Recommends
for a package that's needed in 95% of the installations. I'm just not up
to handle these.

Cheers,
 -- Guido