[Solved] What's the right way to install/upgrade virtualbox ext-packs?

Question

I'm a little confused about how one should go about upgrading the ext-packs for virtualbox. It doesn't look like pacman -Syu covers ext-packs, so I'm wondering whether using the AUR package is the correct way to upgrade ext-packs. Any feedback will be appreciated.
Edit: To add some more detail: I can upgrade the guest additions from within my Windows guest to match the version of the latest vb upgrade obtained via pacman. However, from the preferences menu of the vb gui frontend I see only the older version of ext-packs. I removed it to test whether ext-packs was necessary at all since the guest additions upgrade to the latest version was possible anyway, but then it turned out vb wouldn't start without it as it needs the ext-pack functionality on the host side as well (to support usb 2.0 etc).
Solution (sorry for updating so late): Use this AUR package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0 … ext-oracle
Last edited by kinleyd (2013-03-19 05:54:58)

Answer 1

I played around with an app called "MacPilot" last night. It lets you enable "hidden" preferences in the Finder and a bunch of other apps and some system preferences.
While it does enable the Quit menu item in the Finder, this menu item does just what it says: it quits the Finder. It doesn't restart it. That could be useful under some circumstances, but it could also be risky. As long as the Finder icon is in the Dock, you can launch it from there, but one of the other MacPilot options is to have the Dock show only running apps, so you can create some interesting problems for yourself with this app if you don't think through all the consequences of the options you choose.
Another thing that's a little risky is that, when you enable the Quit menu item, it comes with the Command-Q shortcut enabled by default. This, I feel, makes it a little too easy to quit the Finder inadvertently. I've made the mistake of quitting the wrong application when the window I'm looking at doesn't belong to the frontmost app, but since it's the biggest window on the screen, and the frontmost app might not even have a window open, I end up quitting the wrong app. I think it's also pretty common to hit Command-Q instead of Command-W, since they're right next to each other on US QWERTY keyboards.
On the plus side, there is an option to have the Finder remember its window settings. I selected that, so I'll see if it actually works if I quit or relaunch the Finder using any of these other methods.