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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960633 Title: Create linux-modules-extra-generic metapackage Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Kernel: Ubuntu 5.13.0-28.31-generic 5.13.19 Distribution: Ubuntu 21.10 (impish) I run an Ubuntu desktop as a VMWare virtual machine client. The linux-modules-extra-${VERSION}-generic package contains several critical VMWare drivers (vmwgfx, vmw_vmci, vmw_vsock), so I need to keep it installed and updated. Since it is a virtual machine, there is no need to install packages such as linux-firmware (761MB uncompressed). I would prefer to remove linux-firmware to reduce disk space and bandwidth usage, but linux- image-generic depends on it. I would remove linux-image-generic and rely on linux-image-virtual, but linux-image-virtual does not depend on linux-modules- extra-${VERSION}-generic, and there is no linux-modules-extra-generic metapackage. I would have to manually install linux-modules- extra-${VERSION}-generic every time I update the kernel. There are already linux-modules-extra-aws, linux-modules-extra-gcp and linux-modules-extra-gke metapackages which fulfill the same purpose for their respective linux-modules-extra-${VERSION}-xxx packages. It would be very helpful to me (and, I'm sure, many others) to complete the set with a linux-modules-extra-generic metapackage that would depend on the latest linux-modules-extra-${VERSION}-generic. Thank you for your consideration. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1960633/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
