Hello, Many thanks for this fast reaction. I really like your explanations and the description for mirall. Unfortunatelly it is more complex than that, I forgotten to explain the structure of mirall / owncloud-client: In the lowest level the files get sync via ocsync, that speaks three different protocols: "ownCloud", SMB and SFTP. This lib is used by mirall. So you can actually sync with mirall to an owncloud server, or any SMB or SFTP place. Now the owncloud guys took mirall and created the owncloud-client, that has only owncloud support and is easier to handle. In the source package from owncloud both binaries are built. So I try the description for mirall (based on yours): Package: mirall Description: graphical client to synchronzie your folders in a set of computers mirall lets you always have your latest files wherever you are by synchronizing them and is based on CSync. You can choose to synchronize via SMB, SFTP or to a cloud storage named ownCloud. Actually you need the libocsync-plugin-* packages to be able to use the specific protocol. Just specify one or more folders on the local machine to synchronize, and presumably a set of computers to share them across, and any change to the files on one computer will flow across to every other. Except that sometimes it leaves some target devices out, because it is location aware. . This package provides the graphical client, which needs to be installed on every machine in the group. For Owncloud synchronizing there is a special client named owncloud-client. Package: owncloud-client Description: graphical client to synchronzie your folders with an ownCloud Server ownCloud Client lets you always have your latest files wherever you are by synchronizing them to a cloud storage named ownCloud. Just specify one or more folders on the local machine to synchronize, and presumably a set of computers to share them across, and any change to the files on one computer will flow across to every other. Except that sometimes it leaves some target devices out, because it is location aware. . This package provides the graphical client, which needs to be installed on every machine in the group. Package: libowncloudsync0 Description: synchronizing library for mirall and ownCloud Client mirall and ownCloud Client uses this libary to synchronize in a set of computers. libowncloudsync is based on CSync and adds functions that are missing in CSync and are more graphical client specific. Regards, Sandro
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