From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdf8z-0005wu-GW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE92DE028C; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D45EE028C for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-75-36-224-23.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:75.36.224.23]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:59:34 -0700 id 00410003.4A8BA2D6.00006D0D Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:59:03 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile Message-ID: <20090818235903.5ca59a35@dartworks.biz> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 10b057d3-1a7d-4768-9b39-a588cf5ffef8 X-Archives-Hash: f7a4d8c9e5f5a40cec83ddfa0aa00975 The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time. (spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================