[aur-general] [Proposal] Cleaning up some Virtualbox packages on AUR

Panos Filip panosfilip at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 20:14:44 EST 2010


Hello to everyone :)

There seem to some Virtualbox ( or virtualbox related) packages we don't
really need:

*1) aur/dkms-virtualbox 1.5.0-1 (Out of Date) (4)  *

*What is that exactly ?*

*2) aur/vboxapi 3.1.2-1 (1)*
    SDK for VirtualBox (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*That one as well ?*

*3)aur/virtualbox_bin-1 1.6.6-1 (18)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)
*4)aur/virtualbox_bin-2 2.2.4-1 (24)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*3 and 4 --> do some people really need older and unsupported (with less
features or buggier) releases for Virtualbox ?*


*5) aur/virtualbox_bin-3_0 3.0.12-1 (18)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*What about that ? --> Like 3 and 4, but different PKGBUILD for version 3.0
and different for 3.1 ?*

*6)aur/virtualbox_bin 3.1.2-2 [installed] (2101)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*We do want this one, it's OK*

*7)aur/virtualbox_bin_beta 3.0.0_BETA2-1 (Out of Date) (37)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*OK, check this one ...hmm*


*8)aur/virtualbox_bin_unstable 3.1.4_BETA2-1 (0)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization (Personal Use Binaries Edition)

*We have one beta and one unstable (a.k.a beta) ? *

*9)aur/virtualbox-legacy_bin 1.5.6-5 (4)*
    Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for
personal use and evaluation)

*Another one like  3 , 4  and 5 !*

*10)aur/virtualbox-sun 3.1.2.56127-6 (45)*
    A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware (Binary Edition,
Personal Use)

*What's the difference with 6 ? *

Regards,

Panos Filip


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