New comment by Piraty on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/18976#issuecomment-583868447 Comment: dkms pulling in linux-headers by default is only an inconvenience for very few people (running either linux-lts exclusively or rpi*-kernels), who then have to take care to manually install the correct header package along the automatically pulled one. I think that's bearable, because with your proposal you'd still have to install it manually. It just adds some unnecessary time to dkms build stage