Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 07/23/2013 10:27 PM, 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 ?  (And why are mips & ppc so much bigger ?)

To get a minimal working KVM based virt, I used to run:

 $ yum install libvirt-daemon-kvm libvirt-daemon-config-network \
   libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter -y
 $ yum install virt-install -y


 # This is what is pulling in all the other arch qemu deps
 $ yum install libguestfs libguestfs-tools libguestfs-tools-c -y




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/kashyap