On Mon, 23 May 2016 21:37:32 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Francisco_G=C3=B3mez_Garc=C3=ADa?= <especta...@kydara.com> wrote: > Package: gnome-boxes > Version: 3.20.2-1 > Severity: important > Tags: newcomer > > I added GNOME Boxes to a new Debian Testing installation and found out that no > virtual machine could be created at all. I quickly found this to be due to the > lack of the necessary QEMU packages on my machine, caused by a bad behaviour > on > the gnome-boxes package. > > Since QEMU is essential for GNOME Boxes to work and is the only supported > virtualization software, the qemu-system-x86 package should become a > dependency > instead of being a recommendation. Otherwise, people may find the program to > be > "broken" and might not know how to fix it.
I think the reason why qemu is only a recommends instead of a hard dependency is, that you can use gnome-boxes to manage remote VMs e.g. via spice. This means you don't need qemu installed on your system in this case. Laurent, do I remember correctly or was there another reason why we picked Recommends over Depends? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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