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libvirt package

  1. Bug #556312
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 556312

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 556312] Re: libvirt packages should not Recommend hypervisor packages

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:00:35AM -0000, Neil Wilson wrote:
> I disagree. It wouldn't be found in a Xen installation would it. And
> if you want to use just remote URIs then ' installing this one without
> them is perfectly reasonable'.
>

I tend to follow the 80/20 rule. My guess is that 80% of the libvirt
installations use qemu-kvm. For the other 20% there is the solution to install
libvirt with the '--no-install-recommends' option.

Reopening the bug to get input from other developers.

  status confirmed

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