Summary: | Rename app-emulation/virtualbox-additions to app-emulation/virtualbox-[guest-]additions[-bin] | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sebastian Pipping <sping> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | patrick, proxy-maint |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Sebastian Pipping
2011-06-21 13:20:31 UTC
app-emulation/virtualbox-additions and app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions are completely different packages for completely different purposes. (In reply to comment #1) > app-emulation/virtualbox-additions and > app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions are completely different packages > for completely different purposes. To a non-expert the two names and descriptions can be quite confusion. I still fail to figure it out from just that data. Especially the description CD image containing guest additions for VirtualBox ^^^^^ of app-emulation/virtualbox-additions makes the two packages rather confusing. There must be something we can do, right? + 18 Jun 2013; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> + virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.24.ebuild, + virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.26.ebuild, + virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.10.ebuild, + virtualbox-guest-additions-4.2.12.ebuild: + Changed DESCRIPTION to make clear what purpose this package has (bug + #372475). + Should be fixed now. |