Re: pkg/54772: emulators/qemu: failed install on Linux/Debian (PLIST mismatch)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/54772; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/54772: emulators/qemu: failed install on Linux/Debian
 (PLIST mismatch)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:06:20 -0500

 I can reproduce this on Debian 9 and Fedora 31. The issue is that
 virtfs-proxy-helper is only built if two development libraries (libcap
 and libattr) are installed, which typically aren't included by default
 in Linux distros. I think virtfs support should be made a non-default
 option that someone would enable when they expressly want it, and have
 first installed the necessary upstream header packages to support
 compilation. By default, it will break more often than not.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave