14.06.2013 11:05, Jordi Pujol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> now that qemu-system has been packaged in diferent files for each emulated
> architecture, we may change Depends to Recommends and install only the
> architectures that we need,
>
> for example, if an user only wants that qemu emulates only x86 architecture,
> he saves 104MB of disk space:
>
> sed -i -re '\|^Dep(ends: qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-
> ppc)| s||Recomm\1|' /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> aptitude -y purge qemu-system-arm qemu-system-mips qemu-system-ppc qemu-slof
> qemu-system-sparc qemu-system-misc # qemu-system-x86
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> qemu-slof{p} qemu-system-arm{p} qemu-system-mips{p} qemu-system-misc{p}
> qemu-system-ppc{p}
> qemu-system-sparc{p}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 104 MB will be freed.
> (Reading database ... 77445 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing qemu-system-ppc ...
> Removing qemu-slof ...
> Removing qemu-system-arm ...
> Removing qemu-system-mips ...
> Removing qemu-system-misc ...
> Removing qemu-system-sparc ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
>
> This could be even better if when reconfiguring the qemu-system package, a
> multiselect list will be shown to the administrator and he chooses some of
> the
> architectures or all of that,
I don't really understand why you want this.
If you don't want whole thing, just install the individual package you want,
there's no need or reason to ask.
Thanks,
/mjt
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