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

[Panos Filip]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Panos Filip <panosfilip at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 *1) aur/dkms-virtualbox 1.5.0-1 (Out of Date) (4)  *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 *7)aur/virtualbox_bin_beta 3.0.0_BETA2-1 (Out of Date) (37)*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
>

Bumping the thread, since we do need some cleaning up, IMHO.