[arch-dev-public] News draft: QEMU >= 7.0.0 may need manual intervention

Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) heftig at archlinux.org
Fri Apr 22 08:52:06 UTC 2022


On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:38 AM David Runge via arch-dev-public <
arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> The `qemu` package now only carries a few common files and tracks all of
> its leaf packages as optional dependencies.
>

I'm still unhappy with `pacman -S qemu` not doing anything useful. Maybe we
could name that `qemu-misc` or `qemu-common` instead
and have our various metapackages provide `qemu`, so the user at least gets
to select a provider?


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