Le 13 janv. 2011 à 21:05, Frank Mehnert a écrit : > On Thursday 13 January 2011 20:42:33 Dominik Springer wrote: >> For VirtualBox headless usage, libs for qt, x and sdl are not required. >> Anyway latest Virtualbox package for Ubuntu has those in its dependency >> list. Dependencies are handled very strict by the package management >> system and I see no option to ignore dependencies during installation. >> Would it be an option to have another package for headless setup with >> different dependencies?
Are those strict dependencies or recommendations ? There is an option on aptitude and other package manager to only install required dependencies and discard those that aren't necessary: -R, --without-recommends > Sure this would be an option but we don't intend to create another > 30 Linux packages, sorry. You can still install the .run package which > does not have any package dependencies. Maybe it could be broken down into vbox-common, vbox-headless, vbox-gui or something ? That is quite common practice on debian it seems. François. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
