Re: qemu-system-x86 dependencies

[Fourhundred Thecat <400thecat@gmx.ch>]

 > On 2023-08-16 14:52, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 16.08.2023 15:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé пишет:
>> Cc'ing Michael
>>
>> On 16/8/23 13:52, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install qemu-system-x86 on Debian 12.
>>>
>>> But through the dependency cascade, it wants to install sound
>>> infrastructure with gstreamer libraries. Which leads to absurd
>>> dependencies, such as:
>>>
>>>    libasound2
>>>    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
>>>    libopus0
>>>    libwayland-server0
>>>    libusb-1.0-0
>>>
>>> Does this madness come from Debian distribution, or from upstream?
>
> I don't know which madness you're talking about. Is it qemu upstream madness
> or debian distribution madness?  Maybe if you were be a bit more specific
> and share your definition of madness, things would be more clear.  But with
> either of the mentioned madness, it might be neither of us are able to
> understand, being both mad.

what I meant is:
why does qemu depend on sound and gstreamer and wayland libraries?
After all, i am just trying to run VMs on my hypervisor.

If I remember correctly, my previous installation on Debian 10, qemu-system-x86 had no such dependencies.

Seems to me like trying to install openssh-server, but it needs full gnome environment libraries.