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Bug 254836 - app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130 points users to impractical download page
Summary: app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130 points users to impractical dow...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High minor
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2009-01-13 14:02 UTC by Jakob Schiotz
Modified: 2009-05-28 20:57 UTC (History)
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Description Jakob Schiotz 2009-01-13 14:02:56 UTC
app-emulation/vmware-workstation is fetch restricted, and helpfully points to a download page.   Unfortunately, from that page you have to register and/or log in, and finding the download is surprisingly difficult.  I suggest that the ebuild instead refers users to http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ where the executable can directly be downloaded.   New users can also order evaluation keys from that page.

/Jakob


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Andrew Cowie 2009-03-26 22:26:13 UTC
This seems reasonable. I've been hitting http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ quite a bit this week. Once you know it's where to go, you're great, but getting there from VMware's main corporate site is a bit of a trek.

AfC
Comment 2 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-28 20:57:51 UTC
Corrected.