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FS#17377 - [virtualbox-ose] missing dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Malte Rabenseifner (Zearan) - Friday, 04 December 2009, 13:15 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 04 December 2009, 13:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
VirtualBox does not start, when 'which' is missing.

[zearan@windwalker ~]$ VirtualBox
/usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 84: which: command not found
basename: missing operand
Try `basename --help' for more information.
Unknown application


Additional info:
[root@windwalker ~]# pacman -Qi virtualbox-ose
Name : virtualbox-ose
Version : 3.1.0-1


Steps to reproduce:
Install 'virtualbox-ose', remove 'which'.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Friday, 04 December 2009, 13:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Friday, 04 December 2009, 13:20 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Field changed: Category (Packages: Extra → )
  • Field changed: Architecture (i686 → All)
  • Task assigned to Ionut Biru (wonder)
[which] is in {base} group. Is a common practice to not list {base} packages in dependencies.

Personally I prefer to list all when possible ;)
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 04 December 2009, 13:25 GMT
"which" is an important package and like djgera said is a part of base group. to be fair i don't know why you remove it.

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