Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 07:54:31PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> I thought gluster 3.4 was suppose to support a libgfapi which
> integrated into qemu [1] so in theory the bare minimum qemu should
> need is libgfapi.
> 
> [1] http://www.gluster.org/2013/07/glusterfs-3-4-is-here/

Right, and that's what is happening.  However that dependency on
libgfapi is pulling in the glusterfs package.

By splitting out the qemu gluster driver into a loadable module it
would be possible to have a separate Fedora qemu-block-glusterfs
subpackage which have the libgfapi dependency.

Rich.

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