There is a vmware_guest.desc file, but VMWARE_GUEST is not listed as a USE_EXPAND variable in {base,embedded}/make.defaults.
REFERENCE: Bug 616958 : 12.5.7 version bump including app-emulation/vmware-tools-10.1.6.5214329 I'm using # grep -R -i "VMWARE_GUEST" /etc/portage/* /etc/portage/package.use: app-emulation/vmware-tools vmware_guest_freebsd vmware_guest_linux vmware_guest_solaris vmware_guest_windows with complete satisfaction. @ Ulrich : Does your problem still exist? In case == "Yes": . . . Would you be so kind to elaborate. please?
This has nothing to do with user configuration in /etc/portage. The problem is the missing declaration of a USE_EXPAND variable for vmware_guest_freebsd etc. The underscore character is reserved for USE_EXPAND, therefore these should not be normal USE flags. Also there is a description in profiles/desc/vmware_guest.desc ("This file contains descriptions of VMWARE_GUEST USE_EXPAND flags."), so I think the intention is clear.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) Thank you for your hint! # grep -R -i "vmware" /usr/portage/profiles/base/* delivers NONE. # find / -name "vmware_guest.desc" /usr/portage/profiles/desc/vmware_guest.desc /var/lib/layman/vmware/profiles/desc/vmware_guest.desc "The USE_EXPAND list is set in profiles/base/make.defaults as of Portage 2.0.51.20. This must not be modified without discussion on the gentoo-dev list, <---! and it must not be modified in any subprofile." [ https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ ] :: DEVs, this is reserved for you ;-) AFAICR, vmware_guest_* has already been used since VMware Workstation 9 at least. TEST: Deleting vmware_guest_* from packge.use and adding . . . . VMWARE_GUEST="freebsd linux solaris windows" into make.conf instead does _not_ yield the results one could naively hope for because it is not incorporated into USE_EXPAND (line 14) in /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults. That hopefully having understood correctly now, two alternatives remain: EITHER DEVs conclude to incorporate VMWARE_GUEST into USE_EXPAND which would be the elegance preferred completing existing "vmware_guest.desc" OR change USE variables to names without "_" in tools ebuild. (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2) > The underscore character is reserved for > USE_EXPAND @ Ulrich: To me it seems there might be multiple other "_" 'culprits' as well: # grep -i "_" ../package.use | grep -v -i vmware app-admin/gkrellm lm_sensors ... x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ... -abi_x86_32 ... x11-proto/xcb-proto python_targets_python3_4
VMware Products have been removed from Main Portage Tree during Nov-2017. Further development has been relegated to [vmware] Overlay. Situation as of today, 30-Nov-2017: Workstation : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8 / released = 14.0.0 : Bug 634770 Player : stable in [vmware] = 12.5.8 / released = 14.0.0 : Bug 639162 Modules : stable in [vmware] = 308.5.8 / released = 329.0.0 : Bug 634862 Tools : stable in [vmware] = 10.1.6 / released = 10.1.15 : Bug 634854 The version in the overlay still uses vmware_* USE flags, but will EOL soon anyway: 2018/02/25 [ https://bugs.gentoo.org/634770#c14 ] . The newly proposed version for 14.0 - obbsoletes the former Tools package, - does not use any "_" USE flags any more: # equery uses =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-14.0.0.6661328-r6 | grep vmware -vmware-tools-darwin -vmware-tools-darwinPre15 +vmware-tools-freebsd +vmware-tools-linux -vmware-tools-linuxPreGlibc25 -vmware-tools-netware -vmware-tools-solaris -vmware-tools-winPre2k -vmware-tools-winPreVista +vmware-tools-windows
Very unfortunately, . . . [vmware-overlay] had to be been closed down and was removed from overlays/repositories.xml: . . . Bug 627666 - vmware: no reply to project status mail . . . [ https://bugs.gentoo.org/627666#c8 ] Currently up-to-date and perfectly working versions of vmware-workstation: c.f. - Bug 663670 and - Bug 671218 HINT concerning vmware-player: - just install above; - vmware-player will be included :-)
