This is a meta package I created to prevent future mainline linux updates breaking zfs-dkms packages. zfs-dkms is closely tied to linux kernel versions and has a compatibility layer to add specific support for each major linux kernel release (e.g. "6.x"). So zfs-dkms has long been worried about linux kernel upgrades, a major upgrade could make dkms fail, and this happened a few times in the past since Arch is very edge on kernel version upgrades. For users using zfs as root, this become critical if dkms is not noticed during "pacman -Syu". The system won't boot for next reboot. This meta package will be updated for each zfs release, and updating the linux kernel version upperbounds accordingly. <notify@aur.archlinux.org> 于 2023年8月13日周日 00:34写道：
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for zfs-dkms-helper [2]:
Unneeded new metapackage. Name doesn't make sense, and description is also not really understandable.
Users can install any linux kernel and the zfs-dkms module for it, or a kernel-specific zfs module. This package does not add anything useful, and it also has a hidden upper version constraint, which is unnecessary.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/zfs-dkms-helper/