Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 24 09:18:48 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:28:20AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, if @Virtualization pulls in all the QEMU emulators then we probably
have a bogus comps config. I'd say @Virtualization should probably only
pull in the KVM binary, leaving the QEMU emulators alone, since few
people will want them.
Daniel
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