pkg and packages

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Mon May 8 18:24:16 UTC 2017


On Mon, 8 May 2017 09:29:47 -0700
Freddie Cash wrote:


> ​Samba + GVFS + Thunar doesn't make your FreeBSD filesystems
> available from Windows machines.  It makes your Windows file shares
> available on FreeBSD, and they show up in Thunar just like other
> folders.  GVFS uses libsmbclient and/or smbclient itself to access
> the CIFS/SMB shares, and abstracts all that away to make it look like
> just another folder.​

It seems strange that this support is controlled by setting a port
option called "Trash Panel Applet plugin" rather than one called "Gnome
Virtual Filesystem".


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