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Increase clarity when devel libraries are needed for a plugin #13184

Closed jkugler closed 1 year ago

jkugler commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When trying to install a plugin, a missing library message is somewhat misleading

When I was installing the vagrant-libvirt plugin, I got the message:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Vagrant failed to install the requested plugin because it depends
on a library which is not currently installed on this system. The
following library is required by the 'vagrant-libvirt' plugin:

  libvirt

Please install the library and then run the command again.

The libvirt library was installed. It took me quite a while to figure out I needed to install the libvirt development libraries.

Describe the solution you'd like I understand the reduction in verbosity was part of https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/11775 and that was probably needed. However, it wasn't terribly clear at first.

Maybe a message like "The following library (and its development package) is required by the 'vagrant-libvirt' plugin." I think that would have alerted me to the need to install libvirt-dev.

chrisroberts commented 1 year ago

Check if more information can be extracted out here