Bug#882205: Please make openvswitch-switch recommended instead hard dependency

[Tomasz Buchert]

On 20/11/17 09:48, Piotr Jurkiewicz wrote:
> Package: mininet
>
> Open vSwitch is not necessary to run Mininet. There are many use cases for
> Mininet without Open vSwitch. For example we are using it to orchestrate
> nodes running Click Modular Router or in-kernel IP forwarding (like in
> examples/linuxrouter.py).
>
> Changing openvswitch-switch to Recommends instead Depends would allow us to
> build smaller VM images and avoid manual disabling of ovs daemons after
> installation. It would still be installed by default for most users who do
> not use additional --no-install-recommends flag.
>

Yeah, you are right. It's not strictly necessary, for example one can run:

   # sudo mn --topo tree,depth=2,fanout=3 --switch=lxbr

Makes sense to me, I will upload an updated version soon.

Thanks!
Tomasz

Bug#882205: Please make openvswitch-switch recommended instead hard dependency

[Piotr Jurkiewicz]

Package: mininet

Open vSwitch is not necessary to run Mininet. There are many use cases 
for Mininet without Open vSwitch. For example we are using it to 
orchestrate nodes running Click Modular Router or in-kernel IP 
forwarding (like in examples/linuxrouter.py).


Changing openvswitch-switch to Recommends instead Depends would allow us 
to build smaller VM images and avoid manual disabling of ovs daemons 
after installation. It would still be installed by default for most 
users who do not use additional --no-install-recommends flag.