Date:   Tue Jan 1 04:50:30 2019 -0800

    vmware-workstation: crude vmware-installer fixing attempt
    
    Just enough to get the various automation things to actually
    work in the client, on my box.  No idea if this is maintainable
    or what... feels gross since I have no idea how any of this crap
    actually works.
    from Arch.
    
    Probably totally broken without vendored libs.  Not upstream ready.

    also, needs bin/vmrun first in ${PATH}:

        #!/bin/bash
        tree=/opt/vmware
        stutter=vmware/lib
        libstutter() {
                echo "lib${1}.so.1.0.2"
        }
        libpath() {
                echo "${tree}/${stutter}/${stutter}/$(libstutter "${1}")"
        }
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(libpath ssl):$(libpath crypto)${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}"
        exec /opt/vmware/bin/vmrun "$@"

    Maybe something like that needs to go in place of /opt/vmware/bin/vmrun?

---
 .../vmware-workstation/files/vmware-server-15.0.rc    |  6 +++++-
 .../vmware-workstation-15.0.2.10952284-r2.ebuild      | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/files/vmware-server-15.0.rc b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/files/vmware-server-15.0.rc
index 8f9b7dd..20b6b80 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/files/vmware-server-15.0.rc
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/files/vmware-server-15.0.rc
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ stop() {
 		--pidfile /var/run/vmware/vmware-hostd.PID
 	eend $?
 	ebegin Stopping VMware Authentication Daemon
-	killall --wait vmware-authdlauncher
+	local needkill=1
+	killall -0 vmware-authdlauncher &>/dev/null || needkill=0
+	if [[ needkill -eq 1 ]]; then
+		kill -HUP --wait $(pidof vmware-authdlauncher)
+	fi
 	eend $?
 }
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-15.0.2.10952284-r2.ebuild b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-15.0.2.10952284-r2.ebuild
index c279020..ceb328b 100644
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-15.0.2.10952284-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-15.0.2.10952284-r2.ebuild
@@ -346,10 +346,22 @@ src_install() {
 	rm -rf "${D}${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/*.so
 
 	# install the installer
-	insinto "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version
-	doins vmware-installer/{vmis,vmis-launcher,vmware-installer,vmware-installer.py}
 	insinto /etc/vmware-installer
 	doins vmware-installer/bootstrap
+	sed -e "s|@@VERSION@@|${vmware_installer_version}|" \
+		-e "s|@@VMWARE_INSTALLER@@|/opt/vmware/lib/vmware-installer/${vmware_installer_version}|" \
+		-i "${D%/}"/etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap || die
+
+	exeinto "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware-installer/${vmware_installer_version}
+	doexe vmware-installer/{vmware-installer,vmis-launcher}
+
+	insinto "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware-installer/${vmware_installer_version}
+	doins vmware-installer/vmware-installer.py
+	doins -r vmware-installer/{artwork,.installer,vmis}
+	if use bundled-libs ; then
+		doins -r vmware-installer/{python,sopython}
+		doins -r vmware-installer/lib
+	fi
 
 	# workaround for hardcoded search paths needed during shared objects loading
 	if ! use bundled-libs ; then
@@ -382,7 +394,7 @@ src_install() {
 	doexe */vmware-config
 
 	# pam
-	pamd_mimic_system vmware-authd auth account
+	pamd_mimic_system vmware-authd auth account password session
 
 	# fuse
 	insinto /etc/modprobe.d
@@ -471,6 +483,7 @@ src_install() {
 	dosym "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/bin/vmplayer
 	dosym "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/bin/vmware "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/bin/vmware
 	dosym "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/icu /etc/vmware/icu
+	dosym "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware-installer/${vmware_installer_version}/vmware-installer "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/bin/vmware-installer
 
 	# fix permissions
 	fperms 0755 "${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/bin/{appLoader,fusermount,mkisofs,vmware-remotemks}