[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#556595: Re: Bug#556595: virtualbox-ose-source: missing dependency on kbuild

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:23:10AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> No, kbuild is already suggested, but because there are other ways to build the
> package I see no reason to depend on kbuild. The preferred way of building a
> module nowadays is dkms which does not need kbuild for virtualbox-ose.

Why is dkms the preferred way? It integrates the modules into the system
much uncleaner than the old-fashioned ways that build .debs and then
proceed to install them. And it doesn't allow to separate "building"
and "running" on two different systems.

Greetings
Marc

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