On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst
wrote:
> Yes, I think that would be the best solution. Each '*-headers' package
> could provide 'kernel-headers' (or something like that).
> Provides does not imply conflict, so that wouldn't be a problem.
>
> Note that a user could still install
2016-03-08 0:10 GMT+01:00 Jack O'Connor :
>
> Would it be possible to depend on a "Provides" that all the different
> kernel header packages share? Similar to how nvidia-libgl,
> catalyst-libgl, and mesa-libgl all provide the "libgl" dependency.
> That would solve the presumably-very-common case wh
> I didn't force the deps to linux-headers because you could use the kernel
> (linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, linux-grsec, etc) you prefer (or all together).
> I will add a message with the next release of virtualbox.
Would it be possible to depend on a "Provides" that all the different
kernel heade
On dim., 2016-03-06 at 18:16 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote:
> On 03/06/2016 05:16 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > It would be rather unfair towards users of a different kernel to make a
> > hard dependency on the main kernel.
> You're right, that could be unfair esp when you install kernels
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 18:16:09 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote:
>Is it possible to add a hint while installing the package?
>
>I know theres already an opt dep but for me an opt dep is very optional
>but in this case you really need some headers to get the modules
>working.
Just to make it clear,
On 03/06/2016 05:16 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> It would be rather unfair towards users of a different kernel to make a
> hard dependency on the main kernel.
You're right, that could be unfair esp when you install kernels via aur.
Is it possible to add a hint while installing the package?
I know t
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:12:47 +0100, Chr1s via arch-general wrote:
>Is it possible to add the `linux-headers' package as a dependency for
>the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package or miss I something?
Hi,
you miss that the official provided linux and linux-lts headers are
already optional dependencies
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FYI: There's a recent thread on arch-dev-public:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-March/027802.html
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On 03/06/2016 11:12 AM, Chr1s via arch-general wrote:
> Is it possible to add the `linux-headers' package as a dependency for
> the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package or miss I something?
I guess what you are missing is that it is already an optdepends.
It would be rather unfair towards users of a di
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