Let me get this straight...... The package marked "non-X11 guest utilities" is for people who DO want X11? You consider this not a bug? I guess I'm from a different planet.
You as a member of the virtualbox-package-maintainer team might know that "just virtualbox-guest-dkms" is appropriate for my situation. I as a Linux-power-user (24 years now), do not. I have to look at the package names and the "short description" to determine which package I need. When the short package description says "no X11" that's when I expect the package NOT to pull in 120 packages including the whole X11. I maintain "MTR", which has a GTK version, but debian (and ubuntu) ships a version with -nox11 in the name of the package to prevent exactly this: pulling in the whole X11 stuff, which is never going to be used. Trust me. I'm not getting worked up for my own pleasure. I have my solution now. I just think that it's stupid that you find it acceptable to have this messed up situation continue to exist into the future. Sure: if you say: "it's difficult to fix because <technical stuff here>, so we can't fix it before 17.04, but we're working on it for after that timeframe." fine. But just dismissing this as: "that's the way its supposed to be" is stupid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1638954 Title: non-X11 guest utilities depends on.... X11 stuff. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/+bug/1638954/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
