On Friday 14 January 2011 13:17:40 Dominik Springer wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2011 22:59:24 François Revol wrote: > >> Maybe it could be broken down into vbox-common, vbox-headless, vbox-gui > >> or something ? That is quite common practice on debian it seems. > > Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@...> wrote: > > You might have noted that we currently provide VirtualBox packages for > > more than 30 different Linux distributions (even currently 10 only for > > different Ubuntu releases) so there is no "Ubuntu" package. > > I got the point that there is a high effort to maintain > all the different releases. (lenny_amd64, lenny_i386, squeeze_amd64, > squeeze_i386, hardy_amd64, hardy_i386, karmic_amd64, karmic_i386, > lucid_amd64, lucid_i386, maverick_amd64, maverick_i386) > Obvious the idea to split up the package(s) sounds best to me, > there might be another option. What about have the qt, x and sdl > as recommends and the current recommends as suggests?
I don't think that's a good idea. Most people will use the Qt GUI and I expect a lot of complaints that the dependent packages are not installed by default. Note that the Debian/Ubuntu guys already split their packages. Kind regards, Frank -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Werkstrasse 24 Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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