On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> wrote:
This is an extension of the rename request for virtinst-current --> virtinst[1]. Based on some further research by djpohly, it was discovered that virt-manager-0.10.0-1 began providing virt-install[2].
djpohly offered that it might be useful to keep virtinst around because of all the dependencies that virt-manager pulls in. I thought about this for a bit and posted the following comment on the virtinst-current AUR page:
"Are there many cases where virt-install would be needed without all of the extra dependencies on, e.g., some of the graphical tools/utilities? Just headless VM servers? virt-manager also installs the programs virt-clone, virt-convert, and virt-image, which seem quite useful even on headless VM servers.
Unless virt-manager gets split into GUI and non-GUI packages, I don't see the value in keeping [the virtinst-current] package around. And even if [virt-manager] does get split into GUI and non-GUI packages, the non-GUI package would include virt-install anyway. So either way, I think this package can be safely deleted."
As such, I am requesting that virtinst-current[3] be deleted.
[1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-December/026311.htm... [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/virt-manager&id=5493fd016372532c5e90556e6ad5399b7e625a84 [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtinst-current/
Thanks, Jason
It seems like this was missed. Can a TU please handle this? virtinst-current needs to be deleted. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtinst-current/ Jason