Package: open-vm-tools Version: 2009.10.15-201664-1 Severity: normal Hi,
open-vm-tool depends on libgtk2 which pulls in a lot of other dependencies. Many virtualised servers run headless, where these packages would not be required otherwise. This is a real problem in Lenny, as the version there is too old for ESXi 4.0. If it weren't for libgtk2, one could easily install the version from testing. But currently this would install 21 additional packages from testing and upgrade 7 others (including libc6). I had a quick look at the package and it seems that only libresolutionSet.so depends on libgtk2/libpango. Maybe this part could be split out in an extra package? Then it would be possible to install open-vm-tools on a head-less server without unneeded dependencies and install the testing version in stable without even the need to backport. Cheers, harry
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