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. -- .''`. Patrick Winnertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : GNU/Linux Debian Developer `. `'` http://www.der-winnie.de http://d.skolelinux.org/~winnie `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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