On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Then you should email the authors and tell them not to insist on > having exact kernel headers in /usr/include/linux. It's an assumption > which is not true on Debian GNU/Linux. They should allow you to specify
But it is true on every other Linux distribution. While Debian's policy on this makes sense, so does the other policy, and as long as the majority of people do things the other way, vmware's behavior is reasonable, if aggravating. They might not even know it's different on Debian, though they have probably heard by now.