Re: Package List Discussion

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On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:17 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> It's been quite a while since I needed go install VBox: now that I
> already have the dependencies installed I can just download and
> install the RPM from Oracle's site whenever VBox notifies me of an
> update. However, initially I used instructions from If Not True Then
> False to install VBox. One can see there that you're right; gcc,
> kernel-devel, etc. are required for compiling the kernel modules. So,
> yes, there's certainly scope there to make VBox installation far
> easier than it currently is.

openSUSE and Debian both have VirtualBox in their FLOSS repos (though it
looks like Debian has removed a few files). Is there a particular reason
Fedora does not, or is it just that it hasn't been packaged? I've
Googled this a few times but found no explanation.

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