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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:53:44 +0100
From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] NBD isn't used by qemu-img,	so don't
	link qemu-img against NBD objects
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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On 11/22/10 15:38, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 22.11.2010 15:27, schrieb Jes Sorensen:
>> On 11/22/10 15:15, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Well ok, seems a really backwards way to try and shoot yourself in the
>> foot, but ok, maybe I should redo the patch to simply allow compiling
>> NBD out instead.
> 
> You're free to dislike NBD as much as you want. Just compiling it out
> unconditionally and calling it a cleanup is a bit too much. ;-)
> 
> A configure option for disabling NBD sounds reasonable, though I'm not
> sure what you're trying to achieve with it. It doesn't have any external
> dependencies that you could avoid this way, does it?

Well it would allow us to not build qemu-nbd and reduce the size of
qemu, those are wins, albeit not that big.

Cheers,
Jes