Your message dated Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:24:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#561639: open-vm-tools should recommend
open-vm-toolbox, instead of suggesting
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Package: open-vm-tools
Severity: normal
open-vm-toolbox is necessary for many of the nice things that I expect
from VMWare tools when interacting with a graphical VM (such as guest
screen resolution changes on window resize). However, open-vm-tools
currently only Suggests open-vm-toolbox. Since aptitude doesn't show
information about suggestions, this relationship isn't pointed out at
installtime.
I heard of the open-vm-tools package (since its name matches the
upstream project) without ever hearing about the open-vm-toolbox
package, and assumed for weeks that open-vm-tools just lacked these
sorts of features.
It seems like it would be preferrable if open-vm-tools had Recommends
open-vm-toolbox instead of merely suggesting it. Obviously, since a
recommendation isn't forced, admins would still have the option of not
installing open-vm-toolbox if that's undesirable, but its features
would be more discoverable.
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severity 561639 wishlist
thanks
Evan Broder wrote:
It seems like it would be preferrable if open-vm-tools had Recommends
open-vm-toolbox instead of merely suggesting it. Obviously, since a
recommendation isn't forced, admins would still have the option of not
installing open-vm-toolbox if that's undesirable, but its features
would be more discoverable.
this is not a bug, but a feature.
given that someone hat the brilliant idea, that recommends are installed
by default, installing open-vm-tools on a default system results in
pulling in gtk and x11 depends chain, which is not acceptable.
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