@Nate -

I hate to rain on your parade here, as it looks like it was quite a
struggle to get everything working right for this package (and
certainly, thanks a lot for your efforts).

The introduction of X11 dependencies into what is ostensibly a CLI
package is not a good thing for those of us who have server systems
which should not have X11.

Please review bug #604998, and bug #391224 which put that situation in
place (as well as Debian bug 561639, where that change was immediately
rejected) - a --no-install-recommends workaround worked, except for
those of us who wanted to automate the install with something like
puppet.

This change, to merge the X11 support components into the CLI tools
package, has taken that situation from bad to worse, and has rendered
this package completely unusable on systems that must not have X11 - I'm
surprised that this change moved forward after bug #604998 was
confirmed.  Please think of the servers!

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  package open-vm-dkms 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 fails to build against
  2.6.39 kernels, due to missing linux/smp_lock.h

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