Wine recommends Winbind
Bug #500880 reported by
jjos
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| wine (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: wine
Winbind creates and launches a service on the user's computer for the purpose of authenticating the machine on a Microsoft-based LDAP/AD network. While this may be a extremely useful functionality for some people (likewise-open does something similar), is by no means essential to running Windows applications.
Currently apt-get installs recommends packages by default. Thus I believe Winbind should be downgraded to "suggests".
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| Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in wine (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
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| jjos (jbenjos) wrote | #2 |
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| jjos (jbenjos) wrote | #3 |
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Wine uses winbind for ntlm_auth, which is essential to any Windows program that uses it. If you remove winbind and try to run these programs, the error message is cryptic if even visible at all (requires the user to be running within a terminal).
If simply installing winbind causes some breakage that you're trying to prevent, then that is a bug in the winbind package and not in Wine.