Package List Discussion

[drago01]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 02:14 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
>> Mostly I use virtualisation to test stuff in MSIE on various flavours of
>> Windows. If GNOME Boxes, libvirt, etc. is installed by default then I'll
>> remove it and install VirtualBox. That's not because I prefer VBox - I
>> don't at all - but because Microsoft provides images for VBox and making
>> them work nicely with libvirt is a hassle I can do without.
>
> This is a very good use case, thanks for bringing this up.
>
> Is there anything we could do to make it easier for you? I know
> VirtualBox distributes their stuff upstream in rpm format, but compiles
> parts of it (the kernel modules) after installation. Would it make it
> easier to set up VirtualBox if we included the kernel-devel and gcc
> packages in the default install?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723008