Hi, I talked with Ritesh, the debian maintainer.
dkms is a Dependency, and virtualbox-dkms correctly depends on dkms. For just virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source is defined as Recommends. Because there can be users who hand compile drivers. The real problem lies with dkms: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762061 cheers, Gianfranco (who comaintain virtualbox since some weeks) >Actually this has happened on some ubuntu systems. Perhaps this has >been >fixed already > >On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at >kitterman.com> >wrote: > >> The virtualbox package recommends virtualbox-dkms. On an Ubuntu >system in >> it's default configuration that would mean that anytime you installed >> virtualbox or virtualbox-qt, virtualbox-dkms would be installed. If >Mint >> doesn't do that, you should probably take this up with Mint >developers. >> It's >> not an Ubuntu issue. >> >> Scott K
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