Feature changed by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307467, revision 2 Title: Add VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO to non-oss repo openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michal Seben (mseben) Description: There is a request to add VirtualBox GA ISO to non-oss repo : bnc#525570 And some discussion http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-08/msg00111.html on opensuseFactory mailing list why YES for the same reason we have Acrobat Reader, Opera, Flash player ... updates of iso GA comes with virtualbox update it is easier to install, is installed globally instead of a per user base why NOT we want limit non-free software to minimum you could download iso image using Virtualbox-ose GUI by 2 clicks so having it in non-oss repo is useless + Discussion: + #1: andrea florio (anubisg1) (2009-08-19 15:55:29) + as i already wrote in mailing list: +   + why we want to limit non-free software to minimum? + since we removed non-oss stuffs from our DVD, there are no more valid + reasons for that. Almost all the big distros provide a non-free (non- + oss) repo with codec, skype, broadcom proprietary drivers and any non- + free software an END USER needs. that repo , of course, is NOT enable + by default, but the user must enable it if he want to use it. + my point here then is: + If that is useful to END-USER that we should add it to the repo and + make his life easier. believe me, lots of people i know migrate to + ubuntu or madriva because there is very easier get non free software + installed. +   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307467