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Bug 255806 - app-emulation/vmware-player bundles internal copies of multiple libraries
Summary: app-emulation/vmware-player bundles internal copies of multiple libraries
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Blocks: bundled-libs
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Reported: 2009-01-21 22:07 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-02-11 08:56 UTC (History)
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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-21 22:07:15 UTC 
Package suffers from probable libraries bundling
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/python/lib/lib-dynload/zlib.so: adler32
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/python/lib/lxml/etree.so: adler32
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/python/lib/lxml/objectify.so: adler32
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/python/lib/lxml/pyclasslookup.so: adler32
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0: XML_Parse
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0: XML_Parse
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/lib/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3/libxmlrpc_xmlparse.so.3: XML_Parse
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/installer/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: png_get_libpng_ver
      /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.1.126130/image/opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: png_get_libpng_ver
Comment 1 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-21 22:09:38 UTC 
You're quite right, but it's rather integral to the way vmware ship and run everything.  Marking as LATER.