[Bug 604998] Re: open-vm-tools (CLI tools) recommends gui tools

[Shane Madden]

> I am going to assume that most people who use Ubuntu on a VMware
product will be using the Desktop version, not the server.

Sorry, but this is not the case at all - VMware's primary products are
their server offerings, and those of us running linux servers outside of
an education setting do so overwhelmingly with no desktop environment.

While it's obviously up to Canonical and the community, I don't believe
that making the server distribution a second class citizen by forcing
use of a source package is the right direction to take just to assuage
some potential confusion between CLI and GUI packages.  As Client
pointed out in June, Software Center will happily point the user to
packages containing a .desktop file by default - what's wrong with that?

These changes, as well as Evan's in bug #391224, seem to have centered
around the assumption that VMware Tools is primarily for GUIs.  I'd like
to urge you to look outside of your own use cases, please.

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