On Die , 2004-05-16 at 01:49 +0200, Søren Hansen wrote: > Would it perhaps be a good idea to split the ntlm related stuff into a > library to be maintained and packaged separately? That way, the openldap > <-> evolution interdependency is gone, which would be nice for the > different distributions. What interdependency? As far as I know there are no circular dependency issues between Evolution and OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP isn't needed to build the evolution-data-server or evolution packages at all. It is required for the evolution-exchange package, because, I believe, we use LDAP to connect to the Exchange address book on the server. This requires NTLM authentication, which is not in stock OpenLDAP, and thus requires the NTLM patch to be applied. I would agree that the patch needs to go upstream into OpenLDAP, but doing so would not remove any dependency on it for Exchange support. The dependency would still be there, it would just not require patching your copy of OpenLDAP to build it. -- dobey
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