[arch-general] virtualbox additions package naming

Ray Rashif schiv at archlinux.org
Tue Jul 19 15:06:46 EDT 2011


2011/7/20 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-guest-additions
>>     desc: "The official all-in-one VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO/CD image"
>
>
> You should not put the pkg name in the desc.
> Either just use "Official ISO/CD image" as desc or use a pkgname which is
> not paraphrasing the desc.

This has more to do with emphasising the branding (of a product), so
it is a corner case and is an exception. This should not be an issue
if the package name does away with 'guest' and remains
'virtualbox-additions'.


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