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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: changing ROM bundling in tar dists for
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

  Hi,

> > Question is what to do with the non-firmware submodules (pixman,
> > dtc,
> > more?) then.=C2=A0=C2=A0I think they are not that big, so I doubt it =
is worth
> > the
> > hassle to create two tarball versions.=C2=A0=C2=A0And license-wise it=
 isn't a
> > issue too.
>=20
> I've always wondered why we need to specialcase those modules at all.
> Personally I'd just remove them entirely and let people install the
> -dev packages on their distro just like they do for any other build
> prerequisite of QEMU.

Yes, we can probably do that now with pixman.  A few years back when
the submodule was added there was the problem that some distros shipped
too old versions of pixman.  Known offender: RHEL-5.  But RHEL-5 is EOL
meanwhile and I think qemu raised the minimum glib version to something
newer than what RHEL-5 ships, so it qemu doesn't build on RHEL-5
anyway.

Dunno about dtc.

cheers,
  Gerd