On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:59:45 +0200 Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 12/28/2010 12:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:40:31 +0800 Ng Oon-Ee<ngoonee@gmail.com> wrote:
virtualbox-additions is the iso to install guest additions inside the virtual machine (win or any linux), virtualbox-guest-additions is to install the additions inside an Arch guest.
why not call the former virtualbox-additions-image or something? a name like that is miles clearer, imho.
Dieter
historical reasons and i didn't bothered changing. I admit that now virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 doesn't have a good description but that was fixed in trunk.
the name of the package doesn't really matter. Descriptions are important in this case.
descriptions are a good way to give additional info, but it makes no sense to keep the packagename itself vague and force people to read the description when that could be easily avoided. especially in this case the packagenames are very confusing. I would rename as follows: virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-additions-image virtualbox-guest-additions -> virtualbox-additions or to be extra clear: virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-guest-additions-image virtualbox-guest-additions stays virtualbox-guest-additions Dieter