Hi, On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:22:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > I think virt-manager maybe too high up the stack for this > dependency. I mean, it doesn't depend on seabios either - but that > gets installed through the dependency chain. It also isn't possible > for an architecture-independent package to depend on the correct EFI > firmware package for the target architecture (e.g. x86 wants ovmf, but > arm64 wants qemu-efi-aarch64). > > I propose we reassign this to qemu, and ask that: > 1) qemu-system-x86 bump the ovmf relationship from suggests to > recommends. I wonder if the "suggests" decision was made back when > edk2 was non-free? > 2) qemu-system-arm replace the "qemu-efi" recommends with both > "qemu-efi-aarch64, qemu-efi-arm". qemu-efi is now just a dummy > package that depends on qemu-efi-aarch64.
Makes sense. -- Guido
