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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
