This has been essentially solved upstream for a while now. If Ubuntu upgrades to libguestfs 1.26 / supermin 5.1.6, then you can split the dependencies into subpackages.
For further information, see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-March/msg00171.html http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/new-in-libguestfs-1-25-38/#content http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/analysis-of-the-size-of-libguestfs-dependencies/#content Fedora split: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/libguestfs.spec?id=be0e44eab5b015b78373c15f07c9cbdb127ebfb1#n858 I'm still waiting on Hilko to include the patch above in the Debian package, but it certainly worked for me when I tried it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053911 Title: libguestfs-tools shouldn't have hard dependency on zfs-fuse daemon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1053911/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs