Description of problem: libsmbclient requires that samba-winbind be installed, which in turn requires samba-common. As libsmbclient is required by GNOME (by gvfs) any gnome installation requires samba-common. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.2.0-1.pre3.9.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora with GNOME and without samba Actual results: samba-common is installed by default Expected results: samba-common should only be installed if Samba is to be installed, as it was in Fedora 8 Additional info: The problem is that libsmbclient requires libwbclient.so from samba-winbind. I think that its easy to solve this problem by changing the samba SPEC to put libwbclient.so in libsmbclient and having samba-winbind depend on libsmbclient instead of the other way around (it also makes more sense to me - applications should depend on libraries and not the other way around). Specifically my problem is that I want to install Samba4 (from 3rd party RPM) and it conflicts with files from 3.2.0 samba-common and samba-winbind (as it should) but I can't remove them without botching my GNOME installation.
That's not so easy, as libwbclient.so is entirely useless without winbindd. It's really a frontend library to this. What we should investigate is the requirement of libsmbclient to link against it.
nod, this adds a considerable footprint to live images, so any work to be able to omit samba-common would be much appreciated.
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This is still an issue with Fedora 11
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A consolation is that this seems fixed in f13 at least.
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