From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:33:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150302113325.GA2309@jama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F441BA.7090602@kernelconcepts.de>
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On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> 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.
In such environment you won't be installing vboxguestdrivers package, right?
--
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 8:02 [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:22 ` Koen Kooi
2015-03-02 10:26 ` Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:55 ` Florian Boor
2015-03-02 11:33 ` Martin Jansa [this message]
2015-03-03 9:19 ` Koen Kooi
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