[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#508395: virtualbox-ose: Please split the front-end and the back-end in 2 separated packages

[Henry-Nicolas Tourneur]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

If I want to install Virtualbox-ose on a GNOME desktop, I will need to install qt4. Virtualbox is designed in a client/server way. So we should be able to split virtualbox-ose into 2 separated packages : virtualbox-ose-common and virtualbox-ose-qt. The latter should depend on virtualbox-ose-common (the backend) and vboxgtk should also depend on virtualbox-ose-common.
Therefore, the user wouldn't have to install extra packages that he doesn't need/want.

Regards,

Launchpad bug ref : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/306834

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-9-server (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash