[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#912725: Bug#912725: virtinst: Please demote virtinst recommends on virt-viewer to suggests

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:27:11PM -0800, Matt Taggart wrote:
[..snip..]
> Interestingly, the virt-manager package only Suggests virt-viewer but, if
> anything, I would think the dependency would be stronger there? So maybe
> Recommends or even Depends? But I guess it's possible to use virt-manager to
> manage VMs without ever needing to launch virt-viewer, so maybe Suggests is
> correct there as well.

virt-manager merely suggests virt-viewer since it's basically a useful
tool to have too (virt-manager doesn't need virt-viewer to show any
consoles) so a very weak relation makes sense

virtinst recommends virt-viewer so people installing it get a set of
tools to install VMs and connect to their UI so a stronger relation
looks justified to me.

It's not a dependency as (as you note) there are use cases where it
works without virt-viewer but the default should (in my opinion) be
to have a working set and not let the user figure out why they can't
connect to their VMs UI.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> For those running into this, the work around is to use
> '--no-install-recommends' as Karl mentioned in the original report.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Matt Taggart
> matt at lackof.org
> 
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