Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: changing ROM bundling in tar dists for releases

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 September 2017 at 10:24, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've always wondered why we need to specialcase those modules at all.
> Personally I'd just remove them entirely and let people install the
> -dev packages on their distro just like they do for any other build
> prerequisite of QEMU.

Two uses: (1) we've tended to want newer versions of dtc than
distros actually had released (in fact right now we need a
pretty new dtc that not many distros have) and (2) for
hosts like OSX and Windows dependencies are not
a simple matter of "just install the distro's dev package".

thanks
-- PMM