Why samba-client not installed by default?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Dec 19 19:05:12 UTC 2012



Am 19.12.2012 17:58, schrieb drago01:
> 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.

printing OVER SAMBA is NOT a basic task
it is not common for the normal enduser

it may be common in company networks
but there should nobody have to add a printer by himself

> @Ozan: File a bug and ask for the dep to be added

and i would file a bug if something pulls samba-client as
dependency - there are still WAY too much useless dependencies
like colord and i refuse to accept more of them!

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