Subject: Re: option in gnome-base to avoid smb?
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/05/2007 11:58:57
On 05/11/2007, at 11:45, Greg Troxel wrote:

>   Do you object to the full samba or to smb support at all? It  
> might be a
>   good idea to split samba and the libraries for other programs and  
> the
>   daemon/tools similiar to what we have for openldap. That should  
> make it
>   a lot less heavy as dependency as well.
>
> I want to avoid large amounts of stuff that needs to be recompiled
> often.  It seems I was having to rebuild samba and then gnome-vfs-smb
> because of advisories a lot.
>
> gnome vfs is pretty modular - I just want to not add a dependen

Well, gnome-vfs is going to die soon (probably in the next GNOME  
release) in favor of gio in glib.  (Not that solves your problem, but  
wanted to mention it.)


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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu>