[Bug 502149] Re: winbindd service and ntlm_auth

[Kai Blin]

Being the person responsible for the Wine dependency, here's my take on this:
ntlm_auth without winbindd is technically useless for about every use case besides the (still) limited way Wine uses it. Given that most package managers go and install recommends, you'd then get (at best) Wine recommending ntlm_auth recommending winbindd, which (for all my understanding of packaging) would still leave you with winbindd being installed.

In the future (depending on how soon I get around to work on this
again), the coupling between Wine and the Samba Authentication service
(aka winbindd) will increase. Given that most other distros also package
ntlm_auth with the winbind package, I'm not convinced Ubuntu should
deviate from the packaging single-handedly. Of course that's the Ubuntu
packager's decision, not mine. I'd say if winbindd starting up really
bothers you more than the fact that Wine is installed but never used,
I'd suggest you just update-rc.d -f winbindd remove (or however you do
the same with the new system).

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winbindd service and ntlm_auth
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502149
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