[Mageia-dev] new samba-squid subpackage proporsal

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 02 augustus 2011 17:04:41 schreef Buchan Milne:
> On Monday, 1 August 2011 22:34:55 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> > Le Lundi 01 Août 2011 12:36:47 Buchan Milne a écrit :
> > > On Friday, 29 July 2011 20:52:14 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> > > > Helow
> > > > 
> > > > Specially tu buchan, in my experince, when trying to making work a
> > > > Squid with an ugly wik2k8 we realize that the squid helper is not
> > > > working.
> > > 
> > > I had no problems with this in providing one of the two sets of squid
> > > proxy servers that had a role in presenting the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
> > > (The other set of proxies used Basic authentication against OpenLDAP).
> > > 
> > > > After doing research we realize that samba has a helper that works
> > > 
> > > You mean ntlm_auth, which has been in samba-common for years, and works
> > > with Squid, Apache and FreeRADIUS ?
> > > 
> > > > , i was
> > > > wondering if you can do a subpackage of that helper so the squid may
> > > > do a
> > > > suggests to that only.
> > > 
> > > I need more details ... so far this sounds like a question, not a
> > > proposal.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Buchan
> > 
> > Yes, itis a prposal
> > 
> > if you can add a subpackage like
> > 
> > samba-helpers inwher eyou place tthe ntlm_auth and others from samba
> > and i then do a suggest from squid to ask for them
> 
> Samba-common is the right package for this. I see no need to have a squid-
> specific subpackage (and then samba-apache, samba-freeradius, with the same
> content, or all virtual packages just pulling samba-common).
> 
> Feel free to mess up your squid package by adding suggests on samba-common,
> but since installing the right package is trivially solved by the admin and
> is a small portion of the work required, I would personally prefer not to
> increase the default footprint of any installation that pulls in squid.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan


this is really imho an example where conditional suggests could work well: if 
you have squid already installed and you're installing samba, this subpackage 
could then be suggested. (and vice versa).

something i would like to see in mageia whenever time allows me to actually 
work on this feature.