[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

[Frank Mehnert]

On Monday 27 May 2013 12:45:27 Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Montag, 27. Mai 2013, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the
> > normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only
> > VirtualBox package.
> 
> so making it the default and moving virtualbox back to main would give this
> instability issues more exposure and thus hopefully more bugfixing?
> 
> A virtualbox which relies on non-free components is definitly also not so
> useful.

Just read the discussion. I wouldn't argue again and again.

Kind regards,

Frank
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