Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:15 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:57:50PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:17:01PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >  
> > So this thread is complaining about..
> > 
> >  > > Removing:
> >  > >  glusterfs                       x86_64 3.4.0-2.fc19     @updates-testing 4.7 M
> >  > > Removing for dependencies:
> >  > >  glusterfs-api                   x86_64 3.4.0-2.fc19     @updates-testing  88 k
> >  > >  glusterfs-fuse                  x86_64 3.4.0-2.fc19     @updates-testing 233 k
> > 
> > < 5M of deps, meanwhile..
> > 
> >  > >  qemu-system-alpha               x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 4.1 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-arm                 x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 5.2 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-cris                x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 2.8 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-lm32                x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 2.8 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-m68k                x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 3.8 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-microblaze          x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 5.6 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-mips                x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing  21 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-or32                x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 2.7 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-ppc                 x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing  18 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-s390x               x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 3.1 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-sh4                 x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 7.5 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-sparc               x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 7.3 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-unicore32           x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 2.7 M
> >  > >  qemu-system-xtensa              x86_64 2:1.4.2-4.fc19   @updates-testing 5.6 M
> > 
> > Do we really *need* all those ?
> 
> Hopefully those *are* removable.
> 
> Unfortunately some packages depend on the 'qemu' meta package which
> pulls in all of the emulators.

I don't know if that's the case for me, I just did a 'yum install
@Virtualization' on the host in question which is why I have all the
stuff the metapackages pull in. I know about that, which is why I didn't
complain about it.
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