Re: pkg/57922: qemu-ga should be shipped separately from emulators/qemu

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57922; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/57922: qemu-ga should be shipped separately from
 emulators/qemu
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 22:15:34 +0200

 Am 10.02.24 um 21:50 schrieb campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost:
 > qemu-ga, the qemu guest agent daemon (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-ga.html), is a program that runs in the guest voluntarily let the host coordinate things with it like time changes.
 > 
 > The emulators/qemu package is mainly useful on the host, pulls in a large collection of dependencies like the graphics stack for drawing graphical output from the guest, and weighs over half a gigabyte.
 > 
 > What the guest needs is much more modest and shouldn't need to pull in any of these dependencies, so it should be available in a separate and much smaller package, say sysutils/qemu-guest-agent or sysutils/qemu-ga.
 
 I came up with wip/qemu-guest-agent. It needs a bit of cleanup and a 
 qemu/Makefile.common but seems OK otherwise. Feel free to give it a go!
 
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 Benny