Hi mjt, Sorry for mudding with such an old one... It was listed in reportbug :)
back in 2011 the package was apparently 30MB but it's now grown to close to 500MB: $ apt info qemu-user | grep Size Installed-Size: 476 MB Download-Size: 71.0 MB (qemu-user-static was 380MB in bookworm, 280MB in bullseye, so it's been steadily growing) I kind of agree that it's not usually installed on size-constrained environments, but the reason I looked into it was that we're shipping a "development environment" VM image with it installed, and we'd appreciate reducing the install footprint where possible. (even if yes, it's too late for trixie, that'll be useful for future releases) Given qemu-system has been through the split already you probably understand better than me how much effort would be involved in the split: how much work would this be? I won't pretend I'll do this quickly (will be summer at best) but if you don't have time would you accept a PR on salsa to try to do something similar? I presume it'd need adjustment to the binfmt scripts as well to determine what's been installed, so some legwork first... Thanks, -- Dominique Martinet
