From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 1331 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at layers.openembedded.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:56:08 UTC Received: from mail.kernelconcepts.de (mail.kernelconcepts.de [212.60.202.196]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C45F737A9 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.140] by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YSO0v-0005Fl-MY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:55:53 +0100 Message-ID: <54F441BA.7090602@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:55:54 +0100 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1425283365-19326-1-git-send-email-Martin.Jansa@gmail.com> <54F439E6.3010906@dominion.thruhere.net> <20150302102611.GY2309@jama> In-Reply-To: <20150302102611.GY2309@jama> Subject: Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:56:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de http://www.kernelconcepts.de/en