Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

[Chris Murphy]

On Jul 22, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:17:01PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Today in Absurd Dependency Bingo:
>>> glusterfs                       x86_64 3.4.0-2.fc19     @updates-testing 4.7 M
> [...]
>>> qemu-common                     x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 624 k
> 
> $ rpm -q --changelog qemu-common
> [...]
> * Wed May 15 2013 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> - 2:1.4.1-2
> - Enable gluster support
> 
> And then all the rest just falls out from there because they require qemu.
> 
> 
>>> vinagre                         x86_64 3.8.2-1.fc19     @side            3.0 M
> 
> (This one requires spice.)
> 
> At 4.7M glusterfs isn't exactly tiny, and is another one of these things
> that's not so useful unless configured (even though that's awesomely easy);
> maybe the libs could be split out?

glusterfs is included on Desktop/live install media. And it produces a big red FAIL in systemctl status listing by default. It seemed at first this was due to an avc denial, but that's since been fixed, yet the failure to start by default remains.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980683


Chris Murphy