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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:57:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC] using pixman in qemu for raster ops
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Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 25 September 2012 15:32, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 25/09/2012 12:48, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> There's a big leap between "run configure, put the qemu executable
>> in some generally available directory" and "you have to first get
>> and build some third party library, install it somewhere, tell
>> configure where you put it, then build qemu, then make sure that
>> not just the qemu executable but also this third party library
>> are on all the machines". At the moment you can build qemu without
>> any non-system dependencies, and we should have a really good
>> reason for breaking that.
>
> Would EPEL satisfy your requirements?  We can add a pixman package to
> EPEL-5 in a day or two.

I doubt it -- sysadmins are always conservative :-) In any case I
mention RHEL5 not just as a local issue but as a nice baseline for
being conservative about what we allow in as a QEMU dependency
(and for things like "what version of glib are we OK to require").

-- PMM