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Bug 686840 - [PATCH] Make kerberos requirement optional
[PATCH] Make kerberos requirement optional
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: User Accounts
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-25 07:08 UTC by Priit Laes (IRC: plaes)
Modified: 2012-12-20 21:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
optional-kerberos.patch (9.80 KB, patch)
2012-10-25 07:17 UTC, Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 		rejected Details | Review

Description Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2012-10-25 07:08:49 UTC 
Kerberos is unnecessary dependency for most home users.
Comment 1 Priit Laes (IRC: plaes) 2012-10-25 07:17:41 UTC 
Created attachment 227223 [details] [review]
optional-kerberos.patch

Preliminary patch to allow disabling kerberos support.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2012-10-25 08:24:08 UTC 
Review of attachment 227223 [details] [review]:

I also don't really see the point of making this an option. There aren't any portability reasons why we'd want to not have kerberos support built-in, and it just adds to the complexity of the build system.
Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue 2012-10-27 08:51:31 UTC 
Please reconsider, not every distro out there is targeted for enterprise and kerberos support might not be the priority of everyone. If you feel like this is going to add more work on you, please just consider that we will collect the eventual mistakes of using unguarded kerberos functions after you anyway.

Thanks for considering.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2012-12-20 11:01:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Please reconsider, not every distro out there is targeted for enterprise and

It doesn't have to be targeted for the enterprise, but either you or I will start getting bug reports if gnome-control-center is built with Kerberos support.

So I won't be doing that.

> kerberos support might not be the priority of everyone. If you feel like this
> is going to add more work on you, please just consider that we will collect the
> eventual mistakes of using unguarded kerberos functions after you anyway.
> 
> Thanks for considering.
Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue 2012-12-20 19:19:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Please reconsider, not every distro out there is targeted for enterprise and
> 
> It doesn't have to be targeted for the enterprise, but either you or I will
> start getting bug reports if gnome-control-center is built with Kerberos
> support.

you mean without ?
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2012-12-20 21:09:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Please reconsider, not every distro out there is targeted for enterprise and
> > 
> > It doesn't have to be targeted for the enterprise, but either you or I will
> > start getting bug reports if gnome-control-center is built with Kerberos
> > support.
> 
> you mean without ?

Yes, indeed.