[ovirt-devel] why host deploy install packages except for vdsm ?

[Fabian Deutsch]

----- Original Message -----
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tolik Litvosky" <tlitovsk at redhat.com>
> > To: devel at ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <abarlev at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 5:21:56 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-devel] why host deploy install packages except for vdsm ?
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have noticed that host deploy installs several packages which are not
> > VDSM deps.
> > Its : tuned kexec-tools iptables-services.
> > 
> > If VDSM needs them maybe it can pull them in using dependencies?
> > And if not why are they installed.
> 
> it is not vdsm that needs them, it is host configuration that we require.
> vdsm can work any tuning of a machine, it does not and should not care how
> you optimize the machine.
> system dump is the same.
> and so firewall.

Does it make sense to let some component require (in the spec) those packages?

- fabian