Package VirtualBox

I don’t think VirtualBox Installer for Linux should be closed.

Packaging an installer (VirtualBox Linux Installer) (the other forum thread) isn’t the same as packaging the application itself (VirtualBox) (this forum thread).

For example there is Tor Browser Launcher | Flathub which is a “launcher”, which is in fact a downloader and an installer. Tor Browser hasn’t been packaged “for real”. As opposed to Mullvad Browser | Flathub (shared code base with Tor Browser) is the real thing packaged for flatpak, it’s not “only” an installer.

Does this imply that flathub made an editorial decision against installers generally or against VirtualBox Linux Installer specifically in favor of packaging VirtualBox (which might be less realistic than the installer)?

Or did the closing mean both, packaging VirtualBox and VirtualBox Linux Installer should be discussed here?

@hub

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