Re: qemu-system-x86 dependencies

[Fourhundred Thecat]

> On 2023-08-16 15:02, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
>  > On 2023-08-16 14:52, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > 16.08.2023 15:37, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé пишет:
> > > Cc'ing Michael
> 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.

sorry if my question offended people.

Perhaps there is a good reason for these dependencies, which i don't see?

Also, I am told that Arch has split all these into separate packages:

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=Extra&q=qemu&maintainer=&flagged=

So it looks like my original question might be Debian specific?