for the sake of anal-retentive and pedantic testing, i decided to remove a random qemu system emulation package (in this case, qemu-system-arm) with:
# yum remove qemu-system-arm
and the result was to remove qemu-launcher as well. was that really necessary? does qemu-launcher really need the entire "qemu" meta package as a dependency?
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:16:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
for the sake of anal-retentive and pedantic testing, i decided to remove a random qemu system emulation package (in this case, qemu-system-arm) with:
# yum remove qemu-system-arm
and the result was to remove qemu-launcher as well. was that really necessary? does qemu-launcher really need the entire "qemu" meta package as a dependency?
Not sure really. NB, 'qemu-launcher' is not part of the qemu source package, so we've not touched it at all in recent qemu RPM refactoring. It is a completely separate project, so best to file a BZ against the qemu-launcher component, unless the maintainer happens to be lurking on this list....
Daniel
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:16:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
for the sake of anal-retentive and pedantic testing, i decided to remove a random qemu system emulation package (in this case, qemu-system-arm) with:
# yum remove qemu-system-arm
and the result was to remove qemu-launcher as well. was that really necessary? does qemu-launcher really need the entire "qemu" meta package as a dependency?
Not sure really. NB, 'qemu-launcher' is not part of the qemu source package, so we've not touched it at all in recent qemu RPM refactoring. It is a completely separate project, so best to file a BZ against the qemu-launcher component, unless the maintainer happens to be lurking on this list....
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494846
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.
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