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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #391224
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 391224

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unsound (unsound) wrote :

This "bugfix" totally annoys me, because when I attempt to install open-vm-tools on an Ubuntu Server machine with no X11, I suddently get the entire X server and tons of libraries as dependencies. I have to turn of automatic resolution of 'recommends' and sit and manually pick out which "recommends" I need.

I disagree on the main point of this bug. If you choose to install open-vm-tools, you do _not_ want the toolbox and all its GUI dependencies. I think people can make this choice themselves.

Perhaps the sane thing to do would be to rename the packages like for instance OpenJDK which has openjdk-jre-headless for when you don't run a GUI system and don't want those dependencies, and openjdk-jre for the common case where there is a GUI available. open-vm-tools-headless vs. open-vm-tools (full GUI)?