Why does resource-agents have a dependency on cifs-utils (due to needing mount.cifs), which in turn brings in samba (& cups) libraries?

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Issue

  • Why does resource-agents have a dependency on cifs-utils (due to needing mount.cifs), which in turn brings in samba (& cups) libraries? We do not require cups, cifs, or samba and do not want them installed for security reasons.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, 8 (with the High Availability Add On)
  • pacemaker

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