[Dev] package missing

fauno fauno at endefensadelsl.org
Fri Jul 31 15:22:41 GMT 2015


Francesco Turco <fturco at fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 15:20, IngeGNUe wrote:
>> Virtualbox switched to the Open Watcom compiler, which is proprietary.
>> This is the reason it is not and will never be found on any libre
>> distro. Try QEMU, which supports KVM.
>
> I suppose the other reason is that the VirtualBox extension pack is
> proprietary.

we had vbox without the extensions up to when it became impossible to
build from source.

maybe we could have a qemu gui that provides virtualbox, so people
looking for it at least gets something from pacman?

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