Hi Daniel, Thanks for your report.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:03:46AM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote: > right now libsys-virt-perl declares a hard dependency on libvirt-bin > which is rather silly since libvirt supports accessing remote daemons > via the network so why should this library depend on the deamon anyways? > > This is not only an inconvinience but could also result in security > issues for users unknowingly installing an autostarting daemon even > though they just tried to install libguestfs-tools for example (which > is the problem I ran into). > > So I propose at least downgrading the dependency on libvirt-bin to a > Recomends so users can choose not to install the daemon. The depdendency was at the time added by me in version 1.1.4-1, since /usr/share/libvirt/cpu_map.xml is used as far I remember. But I need to look closer at it, if we can weaken de dependency. Regards, Salvatore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
