Wrong dependency in Gentoo

[Geaaru]

Hi Matthew,
thank you very much for the explanation.
So, there is something to fix in Gentoo ebuild that block use of Samba
when samba use flag is disable.

On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 09:38 +0000, Matthew Newton wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 09:39 +0100, Geaaru wrote:
> > there is an old issue in Gentoo bugzilla created before that
> > i'mbecame Freeradius Ebuild Maintainer with (I think) a
> > wrongdependency.
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/662074
> > 
> > For some reason maybe in the past MSCHAP was related to
> > Sambalibrary?
> 
> It still is.
> If you build FreeRADIUS in the presence of the Samba
> libraries(specifically libwbclient), then rlm_mschap will link
> against it andenable you to authenticate directly against winbind,
> and therefore AD.
> If libwbclient isn't available, it won't link against it.
> The configure output is clear about what it's doing.
> In both cases, internal MSCHAP auth will work. It just
> affectsexternally authenticating against AD.
> 
> > I think that is an error but can anyone confirm this.
> 
> If you depend on Samba, people who want to use direct winbind auth
> willbe able to, and everyone gets an extra 15kb library.
> If you don't depend on Samba, useful functionality is lost for
> thosewho need it.
> I know which one I'd choose...