Kernel linux-virt depends on linux-firmware (edge)
In difference to the (old) package linux-virthardened the (new) package
linux-virt depends on linux-firmware and all of its 78
sub-dependencies.
This results in a much larger installation size. Additionally those
firmware are not needed (at all?) in virtual environments.
I assume this happened around 2018-01-10 or 2018-01-11 as there was some
discussion about not using grsec anymore.
As the size of the virtual media image would increase by about 50% I
assume that this dependency should get removed before releasing a new
version.
(from redmine: issue id 8481, created on 2018-02-12)