On 07/31/2015 12:22 PM, fauno wrote: > Francesco Turco <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 15:20, IngeGNUe wrote: >>> Virtualbox switched to the Open Watcom compiler, which is proprietary. >>> This is the reason it is not and will never be found on any libre >>> distro. Try QEMU, which supports KVM. >> >> I suppose the other reason is that the VirtualBox extension pack is >> proprietary. > > we had vbox without the extensions up to when it became impossible to > build from source. > > maybe we could have a qemu gui that provides virtualbox, so people > looking for it at least gets something from pacman?
I think we could add qtemu [0] and qemu-launcher [1] to the blacklist for technical reasons to add virtualbox in their provides array. [0]:https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/i686/qtemu/ [1]:https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/any/qemu-launcher/
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