[aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:40:31 +0800
Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> 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.

why not call the former virtualbox-additions-image or something?
a name like that is miles clearer, imho.

Dieter