Comment 11 for bug 604998

First of all, open-vm-toolbox, is a transitional package. The GUI version no longer is in the program/package, only the CLI/cmd version still exists.

I thought of a possibly better solution, which may be a win-win scenario.

If we split up the packaging for GUI and CLI version, it might cause headaches for a lot of people (including myself).

I am going to assume that most people who use Ubuntu on a VMware product will be using the Desktop version, not the server. Although, some of them use the Tools that comes with the program. Where I go to college, for the Linux I class they now use Ubuntu (they used used Fedora, when I took the class), the GUI version. For Linux II, they use SUSE Enterprise Server, GUI version, most of the time.

SOLUTION: Keep the open-vm-tools package as it is. But a create a new source packaging, just for the people who run the server/CLI version of Ubuntu.

If I had to do this on my own (like I did for what's in the Oneiric repo), with limited knowledge of this stuff (although turning open-vm-toolbox into a transitional package was a learning experience, and I'm more wiser). I personally would create a new source package, and just strip all the GUI stuff out of it, and rename the packages. Doing this would keep the package stable (at most), I think.

I personally want a second opinion from either Evan, Serge, or Dave (the latter 2 have sponsored my uploads (for Maverick and the current Oneiric/Precise packages)).