[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#626406: Bug#626406: virtualbox-ose-guest-utils: Does not work, or Do not understand what it is useful for

[Eugen Dedu]

On 12/05/11 14:21, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:10:00AM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> So virtualbox-ose-guest-utils is to be installed on guest.  As it is
>
> As the documentation already says.
>
>> a debian package, it is to be installed (it works) only on Debian
>> guests.  Then why is it about "non-X11 guest utilities", since the
>> Debian guest is a X11 system?  On Debian guest, only
>> virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 should exist.
>
> Please read the docs before asking the developers. There are guest tools for
> usage with X11 like a video driver and those that can be used even without X
> like the shared folders.

Now I understand.  In the context of various OSes, I wrongly assumed 
that X11 means linux, and non-X11 means the others (Win, OSX).

Hope others do not make the same confusion like me.

I would propose to change the long description like this:

- for ...-utils: This package provides the non-X11 (i.e. text-only) 
guest utilities...
- for ...-x11: At the end of the long description, add: For text-only 
guest utilities, see virtualbox-ose-guest-utils.

-- 
Eugen