Bug 733098

Summary:	app-emulation/qemu should default to IUSE=+slirp
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthias Maier <tamiko>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	slyfox, virtualization
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2020-07-17 16:46:26 UTC

FWICS, the default of USE=-slirp disables '-net user' and the error message is completely unhelpful:

  qemu-system-x86_64: Parameter 'type' expects a netdev backend type

I think it'd really be preferable to default to IUSE=+slirp, so that users suddenly don't lose networking by default.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2020-07-17 19:39:23 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=419a580ff4ffa72a4314a7befa0e64ceed21fa54

commit 419a580ff4ffa72a4314a7befa0e64ceed21fa54
Author:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-07-17 19:39:01 +0000
Commit:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-07-17 19:39:18 +0000

    app-emulation/qemu: enable USE=slirp by default
    
    Reported-by: Michał Górny
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/733098
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.103, Repoman-2.3.23
    Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>

 app-emulation/qemu/qemu-5.0.0-r2.ebuild | 2 +-
 app-emulation/qemu/qemu-9999.ebuild     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)