Comment 10 for bug 604998

@Nate,

Yeah, a number of the added depends and recommends lead back to X stuff. Here's the added ones that do, as far as I can tell:

- Requires:
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
libgtk2.0-0
libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
libice6
libx11-6
libxcomposite1
libxext6
libxi6
libxinerama1
libxrandr2
libxss1
libxtst6
- Recommends:
xauth
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
xserver-xorg-video-vmware

I think a separate package is probably how this needs to end up, I agree. I'm not sure if it could be purely a dummy package - would any of this stuff brought in from the old toolbox package cause problems on a system with no X11 present? (Heck, if they don't, then a single unified package would work just fine.)

/etc/vmware-tools/xautostart.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop
/usr/bin/vmware-xdg-detect-de
/usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libdesktopEvents.so
/usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libdndcp.so
/usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libresolutionSet.so
/usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libunity.so

The best 'shape' of that eventual solution as far as packages and their names, I'm not sure on.

open-vm-tools for CLI // open-vm-tools-gui for GUI
open-vm-tools for CLI // open-vm-toolbox for GUI
open-vm-tools-cli for CLI // open-vm-tools for GUI
open-vm-tools-cli for CLI // open-vm-tools-gui for GUI
open-vm-tools-nox for CLI // open-vm-tools for GUI

I'm really not sure what naming scheme would be the most Ubuntu-appropriate, but I'd personally have no complaint with any of those variants.