On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:48:17PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> The change IIUC is that virtualbox-ose is now a package without graphical 
> frontend while the graphical frontend is provided by the -qt package. In 
> itself that makes a lot of sense, but I wonder if this isn't going to 
> cause major confusion with users upgrading from an older virtualbox-ose 
> version.

That's why the gui package is recommended.

> IMO the first option makes most sense as most users will expect the 
> graphical frontend when they install "virtualbox-ose". (If alternative 
> graphical frontends are expected, keeping the name virtualbox-ose-qt 
> would make sense).

There already is one: vboxgtk.

Michael
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