On 12/28/10 at 11:40am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 13:56 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
In the [community] repo there are the following packages in addition to the package virtualbox 4.0.0-2:
virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 (any) virtualbox-guest-additions 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) virtualbox-guest-modules 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64)
In ABS there's only virtualbox-additions.
What is what package? And is virtualbox-additions a duplicate of virtualbox-guest-additions? If yes, it would be nice, if this could be removed from [community] without moving it to AUR.
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.
And it would be nice if virtualbox-ext-oracle (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44761) would be moved to [community], too, so that virtualbox is completely in [community] with all its features.
Isn't there licensing issues with these? Or have those been resolved by Oracle?
Yes, the USB2.0 features are licensend so we can' t package them in [community], still the TU' s have done a good job ;)