FS#61543 - [nvidia-dkms] doesn't need headers as dependency
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Opened by RoundCube (RoundCube) - Saturday, 26 January 2019, 19:11 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 18:12 GMT
Opened by RoundCube (RoundCube) - Saturday, 26 January 2019, 19:11 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 18:12 GMT
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Details
nvidia-dkms has some (not all) kernel headers as
optdependency
It doesn't need them as the "dkms" packages lists them already It would be consistent with other dkms packages to remove them, same for virtualbox (separate ticket on cummunity tracker) |
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Closed by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 18:12 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed in trunk
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 18:12 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed in trunk
So yes, let's drop it from the package.
It would anyways not be the correct way to inform users of Nvidia theoretically not working on a specific kernel (official or otherwise).