To: Thomas Koch: > I was forced to install vim! This is insulting for an emacs user!
guestfish needs vim to implement the 'vi' command: http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#vi (and emacs to implement the 'emacs' command). I don't know why libguestfs0 would depend on this however. > Seriously. The dependency list of libguestfs0 is very > surprising. Could you please check whether libguestfs0 could be split > up in smaller binary packages with only minimal dependencies? If that > shouldn't be possible (how?), could you please add a short explanation > of the dependencies in the package description and a longer one in a > README.Debian? This is a pretty common question, and therefore I have added the following section to the FAQ http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#libguestfs-has-a-really-long-list-of-dependencies- section: "Libguestfs has a really long list of dependencies" It would be possible to package libguestfs for Debian differently, and although I doubt that you'd be happier with the results, let me know if any of the alternatives suggested in that section are better for you. One thing which is unfortunately *not* possible at this time is to split libguestfs up into different capabilities, eg. enabling only XFS or NTFS by installing a particular subpackage. Having said that, in the Debian package right now there are probably dependencies which are not needed. In particular I don't think that the appliance dependencies are needed on the main package. To: Laurent Bigonville: > I might be wrong here, but isn't libguestfs running all the commands > into an appliance? Shouldn't all these dependencies installed only > inside the appliance? Or is there a "mode" where libguestfs can run > commands on the host? Not quite either of these. Libguestfs builds an appliance using files from the host (eg. /sbin/mkfs), then runs these commands in the appliance only, never on the host. It therefore needs them to be present on the host, so it can copy them into the appliance to run them. The supermin man page explains all this, see: http://libguestfs.org/supermin.8.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES (Note that supermin was previously called febootstrap; it's the same thing) - - - I hope this at least explains some of what's going on, even if it doesn't help much :-( Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
