Patch to remove zlib.
Volker Lendecke
Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jul 9 13:50:36 MDT 2014
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:46:47PM -0400, Ira Cooper wrote:
> Note: To apply it unxz it then use git am --ignore-whitespace , otherwise
> you may have issues. (xz was used to save the list a good bit of space...
> it's over 500k gzipped.)
>
> As far as why: I listened to metze/vl. I disagree with them.
>
> I believe that third party (non Samba Team developed) libraries do not
> belong in the tree. They are asking for trouble long term, IMHO.
>
> Consider this patch the first step down the path to cleaning up these
> libraries.
Please make sure that you can still build the file server,
winbind and smbclient without zlib around at all.
Otherwise I will NACK this, whatever meaning that might still
have.
Thanks,
Volker
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