Ubuntu
linux-meta package

linux-image-extra-virtual should depend linux-modules-extra-X.Y.Z-generic

Bug #2064739 reported by Simon Déziel
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Bug Description

linux-image-extra-virtual currently depends on linux-image-generic which depends on too much when you consider it's use in VMs.

linux-image-generic comes with unneeded bits like the Intel/AMD microcodes, linux-firmware and thermald packages which are most of the time unneeded/unwanted in VMs.

It would be nice for linux-image-extra-virtual to depend on:

* linux-modules-extra-X.Y.Z-generic

This way, users of VMs wanting more than just the regular set of modules that come with linux-image-virtual would simply need to install linux-image-extra-virtual to get the versioned dependency on the -extra set of modules.

Simon Déziel (sdeziel)
summary: - linux-image-extra-virtual should not depend on linux-image-generic
+ linux-image-extra-virtual should depend linux-modules-
+ extra-X.Y.Z-generic
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