On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Michal Šebeň
Hi all,
after virtualbox licensing change, I received (again) requests to include VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (now fully open sourced) to our virtualbox package - this iso (~35MB) contains scripts, windows and linux binaries for additional features on virtualbox guests, problem is that we can't prepare this ISO in our buildservice (because we can't build windows binaries) so we have to grab prepared ISO by oracle team from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ and put it to the rpm subpackage
what do you think about this step ? is it a standard way ?
note: user could always download VBoxGuestAdditions.iso using menu in GUI (with 2-clicks)
The goal of any distro is to provide all the features without using 2-clicks... If tomorrow Oracle site goes down, or they become proprietary, and close VirtualBox, then what ? As Richard Stallman puts it, this is called "careless computing". We should not depend on Oracle for such critical functionality, and provide the ISO as part of the distro. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org