[Lxc-users] Dependencies Use Cases

[Huang Liang]

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On Nov 4, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Alex Eagar wrote:

> I would like to use LXC on Ubuntu 11.10, but there are a few points
> that I'm having a hard time figuring out. I have been reading
> documentation, but it's a bit spread out and differs a bit from site
> to site.
> 
> Please share your opinion and perspective about the dependencies and
> recommends of the LXC package in Ubuntu, particularly what you can
> imagine the use cases would be for installing or not installing
> recommended packages.
> 
>> From Aptitude on Ubuntu amd64 11.10
> 
> lxc
> - Depends (2)
> -- libc6 (>= 2.8)
> -- libcap (>= 2.10)
> - Recommends (3)
> -- cgroup-lite | cgroup-bin
> -- debootstrap
> -- libcap2-bin
> 
> cgroup-bin
> - Depends (3)
> -- libc6 (>= 2.7)
> -- libcgroup1
> -- upstart-job
> 
> cgroup-lite
> - Depends (1)
> -- upstart-job
> - Conflicts
> -- cgroup-bin
> 
>> From my perspective, having only read about LXC, it seems like libcap
> and libcgroup1 should be dependencies of LXC while libcap2-bin and
> cgroup-bin should be recommends of LXC. No offence to the creator of
> cgroup-lite, but from my limited perspective it seems like
> uninstalling LXC is a better solution than using cgroup-lite.
> 
> Description of cgroup-lite.
> http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/365681
> 
> Rational behind cgroup-lite.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcgroup/+bug/829628
> 
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