Summary: | VMware versions sloted? | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Thomas Schweikle <tps> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled> |
Status: | VERIFIED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Thomas Schweikle
2005-08-28 08:14:18 UTC
They are not designed to live side-by-side and the headache required to keep them both on a system isn't worth my time (sorry) as kernel modules would need adjusting, as well as all of the initialization and configuration scripts. It would be nice to have at least the tools (vmware-mount.pl, vmware-loop) available for different versions. These work, even if the main program does indeed need some tweaking to make them work side by side (not directly, you'll have to switch between them. Only one version may be running at any given time). It is a pitty not being able to have at least the tools available from older versions! Could you please make vmware sloted at least, installing files in "/opt/vmware-${version}", linking "/opt/vmware" to the latest version installed? This wouldn't be a great change, but a great enhacement over: "emerge =vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r6" Uupps! Again a VM created using VMware 5: "emerge unmerge vmware-workstation" "emerge =vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r1" Do some work. Need VMware 4 for a new VM: "emerge unmerge vmware-workstation" "emerge =vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r6" ... Leave it up to someone else to make it switchable! But make it possible! *sigh* When someone says that they WONTFIX it, it means that they don't plan on doing it. As I am the only person that actively maintains the vmware-workstation ebuilds, I think this is a complete waste of my time and that it will, in the long run, cause more bugs to be filed. You're more than welcome to do what you want on your system, but as I stated before, this is WONTFIX. Please refrain from reopening this bug, as you'll only end up pissing me off. The package is NOT suitable for being installed into a separate SLOT, otherwise, I'd do it. ... |