[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#662801: Bug#662801: samba-common: Should *not* ask for workgroup when Debian is installed

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek at gmail.com):
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> > Quoting Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek at gmail.com):
> >
> >> > workgroup question belongs to samba-common I have to admit that the
> >> > question shouldn't be asked when people only install samba-common just
> >> > because it's pulled as a dependency (I wonder which one).
> >>
> >> samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient
> >
> > OK, so next step..:-)...what is bringing smbclient in?
> 
> Don't know, the desktop task?
> When removing samba it only removed those 3 pkgs.

Hmmm, I don't understand, indeed.

The desktop task doesn't itself pull smbclient or samba
*directly*. Those are pulled...but only by the "file-server" task and,
here, I think the workgroup question makes perfect sense.

So, if you're only installing the desktop task:

- first the samba *binary* package shouldn't be installed at all
- then we need to find out what triggers smbclient, in order to check
whether it can be droped entirely or not


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