Re: [Libguestfs] OT: nbdkit packaging in debian
* Richard W.M. Jones:
I was looking at this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725504
There's a related issue with the Debian packaging, which is that the
package as a whole requires big dependencies (eg. libguestfs0).
However these are not needed by the base package, just by plugins.
That bug resulted in most of the plugins not being built at all.
In Fedora we package the plugins as sub-packages, so if you install
the base package you don't require the extra dependencies. If you
install any plugin, it pulls in the base package.
That's a good idea. I think I am going to split the package up.
Cheers,
-Hilko