open-vm-tools requires xorg but is supposed to be CLI only

Binary package hint: open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools - tools and components for VMware guest systems (CLI tools)

# apt-get install open-vm-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  defoma diffstat ethtool fontconfig fontconfig-config hicolor-icon-theme intel-gpu-tools
  libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2
  libcairomm-1.0-1 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri
  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libice6 libicu42
  libjasper1 libjpeg62 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpangomm-1.4-1 libpciaccess0
  libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libsysfs2 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 liburiparser1 libxaw7
  libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxfont1
  libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxt6
  libxtst6 libxv1 libxvmc1 open-vm-source open-vm-toolbox quilt shared-mime-info tsconf
  ttf-dejavu-core x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common x11-xkb-utils xfonts-base xfonts-encodings
  xfonts-utils 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-i128 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

This is a headless server - I just want the VMware tools, not Xorg. (The vmware-open-vm-tools-nox package supplied by packages.vmware.com does not require Xorg).