On 1 September 2017 at 10:24, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > I've always wondered why we need to specialcase those modules at all. > Personally I'd just remove them entirely and let people install the > -dev packages on their distro just like they do for any other build > prerequisite of QEMU.
Two uses: (1) we've tended to want newer versions of dtc than distros actually had released (in fact right now we need a pretty new dtc that not many distros have) and (2) for hosts like OSX and Windows dependencies are not a simple matter of "just install the distro's dev package". thanks -- PMM
