Since I wrote the message #26 above, we've done a lot of work upstream
and -- starting with libguestfs = 1.26 and supermin = 5 -- it will
be possible to split the dependencies of the appliance.
The basic ideas are covered in these blog posts:
Hi,
I might be wrong here, but isn't libguestfs running all the commands
into an appliance? Shouldn't all these dependencies installed only
inside the appliance? Or is there a mode where libguestfs can run
commands on the host?
When running update-guestfs-appliance it seems that supermin is
To: Thomas Koch:
I was forced to install vim! This is insulting for an emacs user!
guestfish needs vim to implement the 'vi' command:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#vi
(and emacs to implement the 'emacs' command). I don't know why
libguestfs0 would depend on this however.
Seriously.
tags 681889 upstream
thank you
* Thomas Koch:
Seriously. The dependency list of libguestfs0 is very surprising.
Could you please check whether libguestfs0 could be split up in
smaller binary packages with only minimal dependencies?
As it is set up right now, it can't. The libguestfs library
Package: libguestfs0
Version: 1:1.18.1-1
Severity: normal
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Hash: SHA256
Hi,
I just wanted to access a qcow2 file and after selecting libguestfs0 for
installation I was forced to install vim! This is insulting for an emacs user!
Not enough with that. During the
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