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Bug 372475

Summary: Rename app-emulation/virtualbox-additions to app-emulation/virtualbox-[guest-]additions[-bin]
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sebastian Pipping <sping>
Component: New packagesAssignee: 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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Description Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2011-06-21 13:20:31 UTC
With the current naming and description the package names

  app-emulation/virtualbox-additions
  app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions

do not reflect the difference clearly.
A rename

  of app-emulation/virtualbox-additions
  to app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-bin

would be well aligned with the current distinction at

  app-emulation/virtualbox
  app-emulation/virtualbox-bin

Thanks!
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-04-07 23:17:32 UTC
app-emulation/virtualbox-additions and app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions are completely different packages for completely different purposes.
Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2012-04-08 19:23:25 UTC
(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?
Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-18 12:19:18 UTC
+  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.