Installing lucid beta1 today, 2009.11.16-210370-1+ubuntu2 seems to still want to install the entire X forest:
r...@lucid-beta1:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell aspell-en consolekit cvs dbus dbus-x11 debhelper dictionaries-common diffstat ethtool gconf2 gconf2-common gettext hicolor-icon-theme html2text hunspell-en-us intel-gpu-tools intltool-debian libaspell15 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairomm-1.0-1 libck-connector0 libcroco3 libcups2 libeggdbus-1-0 libenchant1c2a libfile-copy-recursive-perl libgconf2-4 libgl1-mesa-dri libglade2-0 libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libhunspell-1.2-0 libice6 libicu42 libidl0 libjasper1 libjpeg62 libmail-sendmail-perl libnotify1 liborbit2 libpam-ck-connector libpangomm-1.4-1 libpciaccess0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libsexy2 libsm6 libstartup-notification0 libsys-hostname-long-perl libtiff4 liburiparser1 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxaw7 libxcb-atom1 libxcb-aux0 libxcb-event1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxres1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxvmc1 module-assistant notification-daemon open-vm-source open-vm-toolbox po-debconf quilt shared-mime-info update-inetd x11-xkb-utils xfonts-base xserver-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo zerofree Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils dh-make ispell emacsen-common jed-extra gconf-defaults-service gettext-doc hunspell openoffice.org-hunspell openoffice.org-core cups-common libenchant-voikko libglide3 gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-plugins librsvg2-common gvfs libjasper-runtime xdg-utils libmail-box-perl procmail graphviz xfs xserver xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable firmware-linux Recommended packages: xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-nsc The following NEW packages will be installed: aspell aspell-en consolekit cvs dbus dbus-x11 debhelper dictionaries-common diffstat ethtool gconf2 gconf2-common gettext hicolor-icon-theme html2text hunspell-en-us intel-gpu-tools intltool-debian libaspell15 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairomm-1.0-1 libck-connector0 libcroco3 libcups2 libeggdbus-1-0 libenchant1c2a libfile-copy-recursive-perl libgconf2-4 libgl1-mesa-dri libglade2-0 libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libhunspell-1.2-0 libice6 libicu42 libidl0 libjasper1 libjpeg62 libmail-sendmail-perl libnotify1 liborbit2 libpam-ck-connector libpangomm-1.4-1 libpciaccess0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libsexy2 libsm6 libstartup-notification0 libsys-hostname-long-perl libtiff4 liburiparser1 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxaw7 libxcb-atom1 libxcb-aux0 libxcb-event1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxres1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxvmc1 module-assistant notification-daemon open-vm-source open-vm-toolbox open-vm-tools po-debconf quilt shared-mime-info update-inetd x11-xkb-utils xfonts-base xserver-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo zerofree 0 upgraded, 132 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 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The control file indeed states the same dependencies for open-vm-tools (CLI tools) and open-vm-toolbox (GUI): Source: open-vm-tools Section: contrib/admin Priority: extra Maintainer: Debian VMware Maintainers <[email protected]> Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), autotools-dev, quilt, libdumbnet-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev, libicu-dev, libnotify-dev, libpam0g-dev, libproc-dev [i386], liburiparser-dev (>= 0.7), libx11-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxss-dev, libxtst-dev, quilt Standards-Version: 3.8.3 Homepage: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=vmware/open-vm-tools.git Vcs-Git: git://git.debian-maintainers.org/git/vmware/open-vm-tools.git Package: open-vm-tools Architecture: amd64 i386 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: open-vm-source, open-vm-toolbox, ethtool, zerofree Description: tools and components for VMware guest systems (CLI tools) The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. . As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are tied to a specific virtualization platform. Package: open-vm-toolbox Architecture: amd64 i386 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, open-vm-tools (= ${binary:Version}) Recommends: open-vm-source, xauth, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse, xserver-xorg-video-vmware Suggests: xdg-utils Description: tools and components for VMware guest systems (GUI tools) The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. . As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are tied to a specific virtualization platform. -- Unnecessary dependencies in open-vm-tools https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418527 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
