Bug 235381 – app-emulation/virtualbox ebuilds would benefit from a better name/description

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Edgerton 2008-08-21 16:32:23 UTC]

When you Emerge app-emulation/virtualbox , what you get is the OpenSource Edition. Which is lacking many noteable features. When you install app-emulation/virtualbox-bin , you're not getting the same version but in binary. What you getting is a different product. The app-emulation/virtualbox-bin is the PUEL Licensed version. It contains a lot of features that I'm sure most users would want. My suggested action then is Rename the ebuilds to reflect these differences. Such that app-emulation/virtualbox-ose (is the open source edition) and app-emulation/virtualbox-puel is the binary closed source version. 

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-08-21 16:59:28 UTC]

Personally, I think the naming is adequate however a change to the description of -bin might be in order.

-puel, while accurate, doesn't mean anything to most users. Maybe -ose and -bin if anything.

[Comment 2 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2008-08-21 17:33:40 UTC]

virtualbox -> virtualbox-ose might be an option, -puel is a no-go (far from intuitive)

[Comment 3 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2008-08-21 19:00:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> virtualbox -> virtualbox-ose might be an option, -puel is a no-go (far from
> intuitive)
> 

I think that this naming convention better reflects the contents of:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions.

In addition seems to be adopted by other distributions.


Alessio

[Comment 4 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2008-08-22 14:12:56 UTC]

Well ok then, just modify stuff in my overlay, I'll do package moves and whatever is necessary then, just leave a note here

[Comment 5 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2008-08-27 13:52:28 UTC]

k', package moves done
we now have
virtualbox-bin
virtualbox-ose