Comment 3 for bug 1551558

Hi all,

I'm in agreement with the fact that vmhgfs-fuse is part of the wrong package. Having to install a bunch of desktop/X Windows packages just to be able to used shared folders under VMware Workstation/Fusion is certainly less than ideal.

However, I am against including vmhgfs-fuse in the open-vm-tools package as this would mean installing unnecessary binaries within VM guests running on non Workstation/Fusion systems. Clearly there is no need for vmhgfs-fuse within a VM running on top of VMware ESXi as ESXi has no need for, or concept of shared folders.

As such, could we instead break out vmhgfs-fuse (and any additional deps from the open-vm-tools-desktop package) into a completely separate package? This seems to make the most sense to me and would give everyone the ability to install the tools they need without any additional cruft!

Perhaps a name change would be in order as well? To the uninitiated 'vmhgfs-fuse' doesn't really tell you what the package does or give any clue as to its intended use. Perhaps 'open-vm-tools-shared-folders' would be better albeit a little long...