Kickstart does not honor exclusion of open-vm-tools package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kickstart does not honor exclusion of open-vm-tools package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • 7.3 installer iso forcibly installs packages open-vm-tools-desktop and its dependencies open-vm-tools and libX11.
  • Kickstart does not honor the package statements preceded by the minus '-' symbol as expected.
  • This is %packages section from kickstart:
%packages
@base
-open-vm-tools-desktop
-open-vm-tools
-open-vm-tools*
%end

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • vmware
  • kickstart
  • anaconda

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