[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#560846: Bug#560846: Bug#560846: virtualbox-ose: no longer needs to modprobe vboxdrv

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Sat Dec 12 21:06:49 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:53:02PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> does it make sense to provide two ways to do the exact same thing
> (especially since one of the options is so much more user-friendly).
> that can be confusing and uses extra resourses (to host two differnt

There are a lot of users out there that don't want to use dkms for several
reasons. As long as this is the case I see no reason to abandon the source
package.

> packages).  also, isn't module-assistant deprecated?

Maybe, I don't know. But you can build the module without m-a anyway.

Michael
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