[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] libvirt 0.4.2 backport

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> Yes you can run without it, but only installs from ISO images are possibles 
> without hal (impossible to complete the wizard with a CD/DVD without hal). 
> 
> Virt-manager will probably run without python-gtk-vnc, but without it you 
> cannot acces the graphical console, I think it should be the same 
> package "status"... Am I wrong ?
Hal pulls in dbus and other things some people don't want to have on
their servers - that's why it's only a recommend. Gtk-vnc has no extra
depndencies that wouldn't be pulled anyway (gtk is already needed by
virt-manager itself) - that's basically the difference.
Cheers, 
 -- Guido