Package: open-vm-tools-desktop Version: 2:10.1.5-5055683-3
The package open-vm-tools-desktop recommends open-vm-tools-dkms: ~$ apt-cache show open-vm-tools-desktop Package: open-vm-tools-desktop Source: open-vm-tools Version: 2:10.1.5-5055683-3 Installed-Size: 674 Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]> ... Recommends: open-vm-tools-dkms, xauth, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse, xserver-xorg-video-vmware, fuse Suggests: xdg-utils Breaks: open-vm-tools (<< 2:10.0.0~) ... There is no need for the -dkms package at all (not just the -desktop package), since vmhgfs is replaced with fuse, and all other modules are part of the kernel. With kernel 4.9, the only module installed by it is the vmxnet driver, which is deprecated (and this isn't specififc to -desktop anyway). Note that in the future we will probably remove the source for kernel modules from open-vm-tools, so the -dkms package will be no longer of any use.
