Hi,
This bug was opened 5 years ago, but it is still the case as of version
1:4.1.0-3 that virtinst Recommends virt-viewer and pulls in tons of
packages that are unneeded in many cases. On my currently freshly
installed bookworm system (with libvirt already installed):
0 upgraded, 350 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 243 MB of archives.
After this operation, 854 MB of additional disk space will be used.
vs
0 upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 52.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
It's definitely a common use case to use virtinst without virt-viewer
and it would be nice if this was fixed.
Interestingly, the virt-manager package only Suggests virt-viewer but,
if anything, I would think the dependency would be stronger there? So
maybe Recommends or even Depends? But I guess it's possible to use
virt-manager to manage VMs without ever needing to launch virt-viewer,
so maybe Suggests is correct there as well.
For those running into this, the work around is to use
'--no-install-recommends' as Karl mentioned in the original report.
Thanks,
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Matt Taggart
m...@lackof.org
