[Libosinfo] [osinfo-db/libosinfo PATCH 0/6] Add support to images

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:54:42AM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:55:32 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > > Last but not least, I'm cc'ing here Richard Jones and Pino Toscano in
> > > order to get their input in the libguestfs bits ... mainly to know
> > > whether explicitly depending on libguestfs is a good idea or not (and,
> > > if not, to get some feedback on different approaches that could be
> > > taken).
> > 
> > libguestfs is a pretty large dependency.  It's also circular
> > (libguestfs uses libosinfo!)
> 
> libguestfs does not use libosinfo.

Yes you're right, I forgot we removed the code which parsed the osinfo
database in libguestfs >= 1.38.

> virt-builder-repository uses osinfo-db, reading its files directly.

Also virt-v2v will use libosinfo in the near future to get Q35 info
about guests.

I don't think this changes the point that libosinfo should have only a
soft dependency on libguestfs.

Rich.

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