There has been numerous reports/wishlists about removing features from qemu. Different people consider different features to be "undesirable". But this is not how debian/ubuntu works: on these systems, packages are built with as much as possible features (and hence external dependencies). If you want less features, you can recompile the package locally; alternatively you can switch to gentoo which has good mechanism for turning various features on/off (with "use flags").
One possible solution within standard debian/ubuntu infrastructure is to create something like qemu-minimal package. This also has been thought about, and rejected for the same reason: different people considers different features to be needed or "undesirable". So we'll end up with numerous -minimal packages, without good reason. And finally, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having the mentioned libraries installed, be it headless or soundless server or something else. I fail to see why some people consider, say, libX11 to be "undesirable" on a headless server. You can use `ssh -X' to log in to that server from your workstation, and run X applications on there just fine, including qemu -- it will display guest screen on an X window on your workstation, and libX11 is required for this. In short: I don't see a bug here, it is intended and desirable behavour. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030610 Title: qemu-kvm depends on undesirable additional packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/1030610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
