[Bug 1786227] Re: should not hard-depend on cifs-utils

[Jeremy Bicha]

This question was also asked a few months ago:

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/anyone-use-cifs-root-in-live-session/1821

Some people apparently do use the CIFS feature for the default Ubuntu
ISO.

Are you interested in the default ISO or were you making a custom ISO?

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Title:
  should not hard-depend on cifs-utils

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently (current bionic has the casper version 1.394), it hard-
  depends on cifs-utils, which make the installation 41 MB bigger. This
  is only needed if used with getting the squash image via cifs. The
  basic functionality (running a live iso or image) works without it -
  proven by killing the dependency by hand.

  So I suggest to move cifs-utils to recommendends or suggestions.

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