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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 26797@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 15:03:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3ua2l3c.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tmaw3us.fsf@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> See commit b344c505f4dff2ecbe981f0a0a3c3d67b222dcca, which removed the
> dependency and Samba.  Prior to that commit, QEMU recorded the absolute
> file name of ‘smbd’.
>
> The problem is that Samba is big:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix size qemu |tail -1
> total: 710.5 MiB
> $ guix size qemu samba |tail -1
> total: 1203.5 MiB
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Right, that’s not good.

> Thus it’d be best if we modified QEMU to search for ‘smbd’ in $PATH.

I agree!  I can’t work on this right now, unfortunately, but I’ll
revisit this at some point in the future if nobody else beats me to it.

Thanks for your input!

--
Ricardo

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-06 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06 10:26 bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-06 12:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-06 13:03   ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-05-06 14:42   ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-06 18:48     ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-07 15:33     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07 19:22 ` Marius Bakke

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