It seems working fine, but missing keywords.
What's broken about its dependencies? I think it's deliberately not keyworded for now given it's experimental.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #1) > What's broken about its dependencies? > > I think it's deliberately not keyworded for now given it's experimental. hmmm, In fact it doesn't have a dependencies broken. It's my fault
This package is experimental and intentionally unkeyworded. You can install and test it, but for the moment I will not keyword it because: - there is no official release yet. There are a few snapshot tags called pre-releases, that's what I packaged. - the development is not public, the developers add a patch to github and tag it from time to time. - it is not clear yet how often new upstream versions will be supported. For now, the latest pre-release is based on virtualbox 7.0.20. No pre-release based on the 7.1 branch yet. On the other hand, the project seems quite active, if you report an issue you get a response quite fast, and they seem friendly towards distributions. So I'm following it and I try to keep it up to date in Gentoo, for whoever wants to install and test it. If upstream declare it stable and cut an official release, I will keyword it.
There is an argument for preferring masks over no-keywords, in that you can: a) advertise it in p.mask as being available for testing; b) give rationale But I don't think we're very consistent about this in Gentoo, and I'm not even consistent about it myself...
This is actually a good idea. I'll do it (not today, but in a few days). I can link this bug in package.mask.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=608928978dbda209f4f1802335a874801e43af4c commit 608928978dbda209f4f1802335a874801e43af4c Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-10-18 16:34:47 +0000 Commit: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-10-18 17:14:49 +0000 profiles: mask app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm Mask, mark it as experimental. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/941566 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
Keyworded and masked.
