open-vm-tools: to upgrade or not to upgrade

[Denis Leroy]

I've been asked (#1429) to upgrade open-vm-tools in F-13. Now, this is 
causing me some headaches because the latest versions of open-vm-tools 
need the 2.6.34 kernels (because some of the modules provided by 
open-vm-tools-kmod were upstreamed in 2.6.34, so the open-vm-tools 
package no longer ships them, even though they're still needed for 2.6.33).

The problem with F-13 is that is spans both the 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 
kernels. In other words, if I push a more recent update of 
open-vm-tools, it will have to include something like

Require: kernel >= 2.6.34

forcing the user to upgrade the kernel in order to install 
open-vm-tools. So the questions:

- is this something that is desirable ? Are there still people that 
blacklist kernel upgrades ? (that was common with proprietary drivers 
users, but hopefully less frequent now)

- can kmods handle a dependency like this, so that 'yum install 
open-vm-tools' will correctly bring in the kernel updates ?

I think the open-vm-tools update is for the Greater Good (tm), but I'm 
not a huge fan of forcing kernel upgrades on people...

-denis