Why samba-client not installed by default?

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 19.12.2012 15:29, schrieb Ozan Çağlayan:
>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>>> because most people the days are using network-printers
>>>> even the cheap HP printers having WLAN/LAN and working without
>>>> any windows crap
>>>
>>> Agree but it doesn't change the fact that there are still plenty of
>>> printers shared through Windows.
>>
>> maybe, but you have to read manuals all the time and can not
>> expect to have anything working out-of-the-box, there are
>> even people not owning a printer at all
>
> I disagree you should not have to read manuals all the time to do
> basic tasks like printing.
>
> @Ozan: File a bug and ask for the dep to be added.

I think printing should be something that just works as well but there
is a significant space cost to adding samba-client:

# yum info samba-client
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : remove-with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache
Installed Packages
Name        : samba-client
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 2
Version     : 3.6.9
Release     : 96.fc17.1
Size        : 39 M
Repo        : installed