25040 – vmware-workstation should be split in version 3 and 4

Bug 25040 - vmware-workstation should be split in version 3 and 4

Summary: vmware-workstation should be split in version 3 and 4

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4698

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2003-07-22 02:32 UTC by Karl Günter Wünsch
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required:	---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description Karl Günter Wünsch 2003-07-22 02:32:08 UTC

I think the vmware-workstation ebuild should be split in vmware-workstation-3 and 
vmware-workstation-4 as you can have a valid (non-testing) license of version 3 
which is replaced by version 4 (for which you don't have a valid license) every 
time you update the system by doing an emerge sync and emerge -u world.

Comment 1 Zhen Lin 2003-07-22 06:18:46 UTC

Don't SLOTs do this?

Apparently, it is not enough, because VMware 3 AND 4 are installed into the same directory.

This is an INVALID bug because you are not supposed to do blind world updates. See the forum threads about how to mask Apache2.

GTK+ is not split into 1 and 2, why should you worry?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-22 20:50:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4698 ***