On 12/28/10 at 11:40am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 13:56 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > > In the [community] repo there are the following packages in addition to > > the package virtualbox 4.0.0-2: > > > > virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 (any) > > virtualbox-guest-additions 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) > > virtualbox-guest-modules 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) > > > > In ABS there's only virtualbox-additions. > > > > What is what package? And is virtualbox-additions a duplicate of > > virtualbox-guest-additions? If yes, it would be nice, if this could be > > removed from [community] without moving it to AUR. > > virtualbox-additions is the iso to install guest additions inside the > virtual machine (win or any linux), virtualbox-guest-additions is to > install the additions inside an Arch guest. > > > > And it would be nice if virtualbox-ext-oracle > > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44761) would be moved to > > [community], too, so that virtualbox is completely in [community] with > > all its features. > > Isn't there licensing issues with these? Or have those been resolved by > Oracle? >
Yes, the USB2.0 features are licensend so we can' t package them in [community], still the TU' s have done a good job ;)
