Since I wrote the message #26 above, we've done a lot of work upstream and -- starting with libguestfs >= 1.26 and supermin >= 5 -- it will be possible to split the dependencies of the appliance.
The basic ideas are covered in these blog posts: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/new-in-libguestfs-1-25-38/#content http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/supermin-version-5/#content http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/analysis-of-the-size-of-libguestfs-dependencies/#content The Fedora Rawhide package has already been split into: - libguestfs-gfs2 - libguestfs-hfsplus - libguestfs-jfs - libguestfs-nilfs - libguestfs-reiserfs - libguestfs-rescue # vim dependency isolated here - libguestfs-rsync - libguestfs-xfs - libguestfs-zfs # zfs dependency isolated here The idea is that you install libguestfs base package. If you need to handle guests / disk images using (eg) XFS, then you have to install libguestfs-xfs as well. The base package doesn't pull in some of the larger / troublesome dependencies, so you only need to install those if you need the feature. I also posted a patch to the Debian package which begins implementing this split (only ZFS so far, but the principle is the same for all subpackages): https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-March/msg00171.html Note this does require the new upstream versions of libguestfs & supermin. libguestfs 1.26 should be released at the end of this month, but there are 1.25.x packages in Debian experimental. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
