Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/24/2013 05:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yeah comps still has a dep on plain 'libvirt' which will pull all of that in.
If no one objects, I'll push a change to make it libvirt-daemon-driver-kvm
which should only pull in the required libvirt bits.

- Cole