In the Debian package, we try to enable useful features. However, adding libtracker-miner-2.0-dev and libtracker-sparql-2.0-dev, while enabling spotlight support, will also make libsmbd-base.so.0 depends on libglib-2.0.so.0 and libjson-glib-1.0.so.0. This pulls a lot of dependencies not needed in the common usage. $ aptitude why libglib2.0-0 i samba Depends samba-libs (= 2:4.11.0+dfsg-8) i A samba-libs Depends libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0) $ ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/libsmbd-base.so.0 | grep glib libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f35b0ad8000) libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f35aff06000) $ git grep ifdef.HAVE_GLIB source3/lib/tevent_glib_glue.c:#ifdef HAVE_GLIB $ cat source3/wscript # ... if conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_GLIB'): conf.DEFINE('WITH_TEVENT_GLIB_GLUE', '1') # ... Could this dependency be moved to be optional? Initially reported as: https://bugs.debian.org/941654
Spotlight support is built on libtracker which is built in glib. If you don't want glib you have to remove Spotlight support. You can however build Spotlight into a loadable module by using configure option --with-shared-modules=rpc_mdssvc_module Fwiw, the next major Samba release 4.12 will ship with a new Spotlight backend based on talking to Elasticsearch over HTTP/REST.
OK. Thanks. So the glib dependency will be removed in all cases in 4.12? Closing bug report.
(In reply to Mathieu Parent from comment #2) > So the glib dependency will be removed in all cases in 4.12? No. 4.12 will optionally support Spotlight (as 4.11 and a few earlier versions), what's new is that you can choose between two "backends": Gnome Tracker or Elasticsearch. The latter has minimal external dependencies: libjansson.