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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] why we build only some optional modules as modules?
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To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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On Sun, 04/06 10:17, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 06.04.2014 04:52, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Sat, 04/05 18:29, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >> A quick (hopefully) question.
> >>
> >> Why build-as-modules only enabled for a few optional modules only,
> >> why not build as modules everything, to reduce common executable
> >> size?  Or is it not a concern anymore at our disk sizes? :)
> > 
> > The original demand was to reduce package dependencies of distribution QEMU,
> > hence not everything is (planned to be) modularized.
> 
> Please note that current situation/implementation has one detail which
> prevents this usage: when any module is missing, qemu complains at
> startup about this.  So at this stage, the original goal is not met. ;)

True but I don't know either, my original patch didn't complain about this. :)

> 
> > But there is no blocking reason to turn other things to modules as well,
> > AFAICT.
> 
> I think so, too, yes.
> 

And it would be good if you have a reason to do it.

Fam