[Bug 216187] www/nextcloud Remove net/pecl-smbclient dependency

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216187

            Bug ID: 216187
           Summary: www/nextcloud Remove net/pecl-smbclient dependency
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: johnllyon at gmail.com
                CC: kevlo at FreeBSD.org, loic.blot at unix-experience.fr
                CC: kevlo at FreeBSD.org, loic.blot at unix-experience.fr

It would be best to remove the hard dependency for net/pecl-smbclient for two
reasons.  First, it depends on an outdated and deprecated version of
libsmbclient (3.6.25).  Second, Nextcloud's documentation provides two
alternatives that are preferred (see
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/10/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage/smb.html)

The first option is to replace net/pecl-smbclient with PHP's smbclient module. 
This would probably be preferred because it's a lighter weight solution than
installing the entire samba suite.  However, I have not seen a port of PHP's
smbclient module in the ports tree.

The second option is install the samba suite as a dependency (or rely on an
already installed version of samba) instead of net/pecl-smbclient.  I have
tested this and can verify that it works.  I installed samba43 from ports and
then manually installed nextcloud 11.0.1.  Nextcloud automatically used the
command line client "smbclient" installed by the samba43 port for connecting to
SMB/CIFS external storage.  I also remember that the old owncloud 9.0 port
allowed this (i.e. if samba was already installed, it would use it), so it
should be doable.

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