Re: Why pycotap is mandatory for building qemu?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/26/24 18:39, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What's the reason to require python-pycotap when configuring qemu?
> It does not look like an essential part of build procedure, but used
> to run tests only, no?
>
> While this python module is shipped with qemu, but for downstream
> distributions these are usually stripped off the source tarball.
The reason is simply that it's a very small dependency, and not worth 
the complication of installing it in pyvenv/ on demand.

Paolo