[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#663093: Bug#663093: [mc] [VFS] --enable-vfs-smb is [no], should be [yes] for Samba

[Dmitry Smirnov]

tags 663093 wontfix

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We've already considered this but decided not to do it - sorry.

It may seems like a good idea, but embedded SMB support is buggy, insecure and 
do not support UTF-8 so effectively all non-latin file names are be broken.

Upstream had plans to externalise/offload SMB support to 3rd party library but 
it hasn't been done yet.

Please note that upstream build system do not enable SMB support by default,
which we believe is for reason.

It would be nice to have this feature one day but not yet, because at this 
time problems apparently outweigh the benefits.

All the best,
Dmitry.