On 25 September 2012 15:32, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 25/09/2012 12:48, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> There's a big leap between "run configure, put the qemu executable >> in some generally available directory" and "you have to first get >> and build some third party library, install it somewhere, tell >> configure where you put it, then build qemu, then make sure that >> not just the qemu executable but also this third party library >> are on all the machines". At the moment you can build qemu without >> any non-system dependencies, and we should have a really good >> reason for breaking that. > > Would EPEL satisfy your requirements? We can add a pixman package to > EPEL-5 in a day or two.
I doubt it -- sysadmins are always conservative :-) In any case I mention RHEL5 not just as a local issue but as a nice baseline for being conservative about what we allow in as a QEMU dependency (and for things like "what version of glib are we OK to require"). -- PMM
