On 2016-03-06 12:41, Allan McRae wrote: > Why are we no longer shipping virtualbox modules pre-build? What are > the advantages from a user perspective? Is this happening for any other > modules? > > Bad things I see: > 1) pre pacman-5.0 updates unsupported without any prior notification > 2) notification of need for linux headers is only given (optional dep) > in update that needs them for building. There is no reason given why > they are optional dependencies. There is no notification that the build > did not go ahead at the end of the transaction. > 3) Update is now a lot slower (and this is repeated over a lot of users) > 4) additional download/install size (linux headers + module source). > > Is there a single advantage for our *users* using the two kernels in [core]? > > Allan >
5) As an end user, I don't want to have compiler or kernel headers installed. Bartłomiej
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