[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 11:33:25 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02.03.2015 11:26, Martin Jansa wrote:
> >> Please don't ever RDEPEND on kernel modules, even when the recipe will 
> >> build them, it sets a bad precedent.
> 
> > I think it makes sense in this case.. nobody will ever include them in 
> > kernel image and vboxguestdrivers utils don't make much sense without the 
> > modules installed.
> 
> I see its unlikely but in some cases (e.g. highly secure environments) you do
> not want to use modules at all. So unless there is a real need to depend on
> the modules I would just recommend it.

In such environment you won't be installing vboxguestdrivers package, right?

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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