Why samba-client not installed by default?

[Ozan Çağlayan]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 19.12.2012 14:37, schrieb Ozan Çağlayan:
>> I'm trying to add a SAMBA printer through control-center in F18. As
>> far as I can understand, this is still only supported through
>> system-config-printer and not from printer panel in
>> gnome-control-center. Besides that since samba-client is not installed
>> by default, system-config-printer is not able to look for Samba printers.
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> 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.

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>> It is not obvious/intuitive for the end-user to know that he/she has
>> to install samba-client prior of Samba printer installation
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> on the other side it would not be helpful having hard-dependencies
> for samba-clients only needed by few users

samba already comes installed. samba-client doesn't have any other
dependencies that are not shipped within default desktop installation
as far as I can see. it is a single package on its own.

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> with your argumentation you could also say "why is httpd not installed
> ny default, it is not intuitive to to know you have to install"

Completely different things. People needing to serve HTTP pages will
know about several available httpd server packages. I'm talking about
hardware enablement. Also, the maintainer of the
gnome-control-center's printer part wrote that [0] it would be ready
for Gnome 3.8. When that's ready, wouldn't you fetch in samba-client
in the default installation set?

[0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805289



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Ozan Çağlayan
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Galatasaray University - Computer Engineering Dept.
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