a trivial fix makes a big change

[Chris Snook]

Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> I made a trivial fix to this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447072#c1
> 
> nautilus-share now works, just right click share and you are there
> 
> the problem is that this package is broken since the F9 and it's an
> orphan package
> 
> how can we manage to get it working a gain

You can volunteer to maintain it.

> can it be in F10 or it's too late for that an I should hope that it
> would be in F11

It's too late to put it in the install image, but there's no reason we couldn't 
put it in the yum repo.

> note: the fix is trivial which is to replace the directory name from
> -1.0 to -2.0
> 
> a second thing I want to request a feature for F11
> that this package works with zero user configuration
> just installing this package, ie. to make the changes in the smb.conf
> to be default

The RPM philosophy is that installation and configuration should be separate 
activities.  There are a few carefully reasoned exceptions we permit, but by and 
large, when packagers violate this policy, bad things happen.  As a general 
rule, installing a GUI convenience package (or having it pulled in as a 
dependency) shouldn't mess with your Samba configuration.

If there's a way to make the default smb.conf enable nautilus-share when 
installed, and do no harm when not installed, that would be okay if you can 
somehow address the inherent security concerns.  I doubt that's possible, so it 
would probably make more sense to have a configuration wizard.

-- Chris