[Bug 1030610] Re: qemu-kvm depends on undesirable additional packages

[Michael Tokarev]

There has been numerous reports/wishlists about removing features from
qemu.  Different people consider different features to be "undesirable".
But this is not how debian/ubuntu works: on these systems, packages are
built with as much as possible features (and hence external
dependencies).  If you want less features, you can recompile the package
locally; alternatively you can switch to gentoo which has good mechanism
for turning various features on/off (with "use flags").

One possible solution within standard debian/ubuntu infrastructure is to
create something like qemu-minimal package.  This also has been thought
about, and rejected for the same reason: different people considers
different features to be needed or "undesirable".  So we'll end up with
numerous -minimal packages, without good reason.

And finally, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having the mentioned
libraries installed, be it headless or soundless server or something
else.  I fail to see why some people consider, say, libX11 to be
"undesirable" on a headless server.  You can use `ssh -X' to log in to
that server from your workstation, and run X applications on there just
fine, including qemu -- it will display guest screen on an X window on
your workstation, and libX11 is required for this.

In short: I don't see a bug here, it is intended and desirable behavour.

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