Hi, On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 01:27:11PM -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: [..snip..] > Interestingly, the virt-manager package only Suggests virt-viewer but, if > anything, I would think the dependency would be stronger there? So maybe > Recommends or even Depends? But I guess it's possible to use virt-manager to > manage VMs without ever needing to launch virt-viewer, so maybe Suggests is > correct there as well.
virt-manager merely suggests virt-viewer since it's basically a useful tool to have too (virt-manager doesn't need virt-viewer to show any consoles) so a very weak relation makes sense virtinst recommends virt-viewer so people installing it get a set of tools to install VMs and connect to their UI so a stronger relation looks justified to me. It's not a dependency as (as you note) there are use cases where it works without virt-viewer but the default should (in my opinion) be to have a working set and not let the user figure out why they can't connect to their VMs UI. Cheers, -- Guido > > For those running into this, the work around is to use > '--no-install-recommends' as Karl mentioned in the original report. > > Thanks, > > -- > Matt Taggart > m...@lackof.org > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-libvirt-maintainers mailing list > pkg-libvirt-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-libvirt-maintainers >