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? François Revol <revol@...> writes: > 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
Yes, libs for qt, sdl and x are depends. There are also recommends, but for kernel module creation, pdf-viewer and audio. On Thursday 13 January 2011 21:05 Frank Mehnert wrote: >> 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.> François Revol <revol@...> writes: > Maybe it could be broken down into vbox-common, vbox-headless, vbox-gui > or something? That is quite common practice on debian it seems. This idea sounds very good to me. Would this be an option? (I would propose a split in core, x and kernel module.) BTW, I really appreciate that the Ubuntu package includes the kernel module. On a headless minimal installation this is very convenient. BR Dominik _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
