[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456989: Bug#456989: virtualbox-ose-source: Please change dependency on -ose-modules back to Recommends

[Patrick Winnertz]

Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007 23:19:53 schrieb Daniel Baumann:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > I wonder what the rationale behind this change was:
> >   [ Daniel Baumann ]
> >   * Upgrading virtualbox-ose-modules recommends to depends.
>
> if you are wondering, why are you submitting a bug report rather than
> asking on the mailinglist?
>
> > Are people no longer allowed to build kernel modules and copy them
> > into /lib/modules/... manually?
>
> once you start doing things manually (by neither using m-a nor
> l-m-e-2.6), you should also manually fulfil the depends (equis)
>
> > Please consider reverting. Recommends should be enough in practice now
> > that apt/aptitude install recommends by default.
>
> virtualbox needs the module, it is useless and doesn't work without it.
That's not true. 
vbox starts up and you are able to modify the machines without the 
module...   
should i search for the zitate? 
A depends is are packages with are necessary to run the app. This is here 
not the case. so a recommends will do the job. 

Furthermore we should discuss to raise the -source package to Recommends: 
too, since this package is necessary to compile the modules.
> that's why it is a depends.



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