On 30.08.2011 18:21, Michael Thayer wrote: > One of the things I am worried about is situations like when the system > has installed some old Additions version and the user installs current > Additions following our instructions, and then the system does some > minor update, partly or fully overwriting our Additions and the end > result is not very pretty.
The additions installer could detect if the distribution package is installed and offer to remove it. On 30.08.2011 19:00, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> Do the other distributions do things like Ubuntu, or do they just >> install the package silently? > openSUSE, Debian and Mandriva just install GA silently. Yes, there is > a potential risk of over-writing new GA by doing minor update. (But so > far heard no complains about this from users) On Debian the guest additions package isn't silently installed. Users need to manually install it. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
