Re: gvfs, samba

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 21:12, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
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> I found the following dependency chain
>
> xfce4
> xfce4-thunar
> gvfs
> samba
>
> and something else wants talloc which conflicts with samba (3).
>
> Now, I see samba is optional in gvfs, and I wonder:
>
>   should we flip it to off
>   should we change it to samba4

I don't know the right decision, but it is annoying if one builds gvfs
as a dependency to get samba3 forced upon; I'd think if switching to
samba4 is not very hard, to do just that, perhaps as an option.

>
>
> The net/samba (3) and net/samba4  DESCR files do not give statements
> about if 3 is mainstream and 4 bleeding edge vs 3 crufty and 4
> mainstream.  I bet it's that 4 is normal now.
>
> Thoughts?  Barring none, I'll perhaps do something after I investigate.



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