Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:36:00
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908240935i6b9af45ai1479994d8a17336a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile by Keith Dart
1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart<keith@×××××××××.biz> wrote:
2 >
3 > The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to
4 > new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary
5 > only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users
6 > are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time.
7 >
8 > (spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade)
9
10 Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
11 overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
12 seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.

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