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FS#983 - gnome depends on samba and cups

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Federico Quagliata (quaqo) - Wednesday, 09 June 2004, 16:50 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 10 June 2004, 03:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I tried to install gnomemeeting via pacman and I noticed that it wanted to install samba too (!!!). So I investigated a little and I found these deps:

gnomemeeting->libgnomeui->libbonoboui->gnome-vfs->samba

It depends on CUPS too: what if a user doesn't want Samba or CUPS ?

I think certain deps should be `optional'. If they're installed, I get additional features; if they're not, I shouldn't get any complains...
This task depends upon

Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Thursday, 01 July 2004, 08:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 10 June 2004, 03:25 GMT
Up to you, Arjan. If gnome-vfs requires samba for functionality, it should probably be left in.
Comment by Federico Quagliata (quaqo) - Friday, 11 June 2004, 13:43 GMT
I'm a long time Debian user, so I checked my D-Box: gnome-vfs is packaged in various part: if you want SMB support you've got to install `gnome-vfs-extras'.

It would be nice to do the same with Arch.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 11 June 2004, 17:37 GMT
Well, debian is way behind with packaging. Gnome-vfs-extras used to be a separate gnome package too, but the gnome guys decided to merge it into gnome-vfs when gnome 2.5 was still in beta.

We have 3 choices:
- provide two gnomevfs packages which conflict with eachother and provide gnome-vfs, this way a user can choose if he wants SMB
- leave out SMB support and ignore the users that want SMB access from gnome (unacceptable)
- leave it the way it is now

Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 11 June 2004, 17:38 GMT
Hmm, we have another option: a splitup in samba: samba and smbclient, FreeBSD does the same. Samba conflicts with smbclient, both provide smbfs. in the smbclient package would go:
- smbclient
- libsmbclient
- smbfs support modules
Comment by Federico Quagliata (quaqo) - Saturday, 12 June 2004, 10:24 GMT
Okee. I vote for the splitup of both samba and gnome-vfs. IMHO modularization of packages is the better way to go.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 01 July 2004, 08:44 GMT
well after thinking about this, i would prefer too leace cups && samba in.
if you want a version without it make your own gnome-vfs package without samba and cups support.
In my eyes it is more important to be able to browse a windows network and use a printer ;) than a bit of disc space.

So if you want custom packages try abs!


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