[libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH 8/8] guests: Move native packages out of MinGW packages

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 12:34 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:20:26AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Given how tiny the packages involved are, though, I think the
> > trade-off is worth it, especially in light of the stuff I
> > mentioned in the comments to the previous patch.
> 
> For me this is different issue than the previous patch.  This actually
> moves the dependency into project that doesn't require it out of project
> that requires it.  It's not like both will use it so it's safe and good
> enough to have it in the parent project.
> 
> The only benefit that I can see is to have only mingw-* packages as
> dependency of mingw builds, which might look nice and neat in the
> configuration file but IMHO it's wrong.  If we move them, it would be
> nice to mention, that these packages are required by mingw build only
> and that would feel weird, like why they are not only in the mingw
> projects?
> 
> I would rather have it technically correct than having the configuration
> files look nice :).

As I said, it's a trade-off. But you clearly feel strongly on the
topic, and I kinda don't, so I'll just drop this patch :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization