The unfortunate reality is that we need to support our product on a lot of different distros, many of which are quite old and don't even follow the FHS well or at all. We're installing everything into /usr/lib/vmware and use that kind of like our own little chroot in some ways. We then set up symlinks for the things that need to be public (icons and such). We don't always know the right paths until we reach vmware-config.pl time, and we have to put files *somewhere* before that.
Bottom line is that we probably can't do a thing about this and we certainly won't be rethinking this for a couple of versions. Our constraints are far greater than that of most Linux software, and as such we just can't satisfy the lintian checks for this case. -- vmware-player lintian warnings https://launchpad.net/bugs/47827 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
